If you are a aussie downwind freak then you have to have Hood River on your to do list in August. This place is truly the best dw place in the world. I have Downwinder most places in the world but Hood River takes the cake. You could do the run 6 times over in one day if u had the energy or your back leg wasn't ready to fall off from standing in surfing stance for so long.
Has to be on everyone's bucket list! 12km dw and then 12km of straight 100perhr hwy to get back up and do it again, takes 10min to get back up to start! The bumps are insane! There is a reason why the likes of Dave Kalama rate it as the best in the world for bumps. Well love to stay and chat but it's 9am and already 30knots so we are off for our 1st dw for today. You can still even go skiing up on Mt Hood if u really wanted to but nuh we just go dw.
Big aussie crew coming this year!




















The town is full of windy players from windsurfer kiter skis and of course sooooo many sup dw people now. Its like a sup highway! So cool. Big winds run a shuttle twice a day now aswell.

Great photos Ang,who do you guys fly with as you don't have an issue carting your boards around the planet?

Great photos Angie
Amazing photos of waves for a RIVER!
Always enjoyed the old windsurfing videos featuring this place

Just another day done and another Double Downwinder. This place is something else.

Some footage from today.

Look at the size of those waves in a river!!!

That looks like such a great destination, you don't really think of it when you think about the US but they really do have some amazing countryside

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angie pangi said...




Just another day done and another Double Downwinder. This place is something else.

Some footage from today.

Love the DW footage at the end of that vid..

awesome looked like the board had a motor on it , flying.

Here is a little bit of Ang and Fiona. Few drops in the way but you get the point.