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stringer
Since 31 Jul 2007
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Chucktown
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 Fri Nov 28, 08 8:38 pm Sweet winching spot? |
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So on our annual thanksgiving mt bike ride at three corner rock, I spotted this spot off the road on the Washougal.
Looks like it could be a sweet redbull upstream kind of place but way mellower.
All the logs are chained and bolted down to the rocks so it should look the same even after the snow melt.
Log waterfall ollie
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genek
Since 21 Jul 2006
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| Fri Nov 28, 08 9:09 pm |
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Sweet, interesting looking setup.
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Inept_Fun
Since 14 Apr 2005
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Hood River
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| Fri Nov 28, 08 11:38 pm |
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Why would you do that with the logs???
Would be a sweet spot tho for sure.
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chanson
Since 31 Jan 2006
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| Sat Nov 29, 08 12:03 am |
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on it..
lets get it !!!!!
bonk, bonk...
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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
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| Sat Nov 29, 08 12:21 am |
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| Inept_Fun wrote: | | Why would you do that with the logs??? |
To make features for wakeskaters...
Actually, I think Tony Meyer and the Columbia river fish enhancement group is responsible for that log jam in the picture. Logs are probably the single most important structure in healthy streams. I do believe that those logs were anchored there for the purpose of capturing gravel for spawning beds. By the looks of the pictures they are working pretty damn good,
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stringer
Since 31 Jul 2007
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Chucktown
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| Sat Nov 29, 08 12:43 am |
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Don't you mean DAM good? har har
Actually I think it would be best with a wakeskate.
That way walking sucks less and water isn't so cold cause you can have footwear.
You can get around most of the obstacles pretty easy.
Either bonk bonk or set up a table over one of the logs or something to make it more wakeskateable.
The bottom there is mostly a rock sheet and some of those rocky/gravel spots.
Sweet biking up there too!
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vangondc
Since 03 Jul 2008
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Hood River
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| Sat Nov 29, 08 3:37 am |
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| Looks like an engineered log jam that the forest service builds for salmond stream restoration. They are both love and hated by kayakers because they help the salmond live and reproduce but can kill the kayakers. Just alittle more flow and its very easy to get traped under them by the presure from the water. Be careful if you use this place with any flowing water in the river!!!
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pjc
Since 06 Mar 2005
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| Mon Dec 01, 08 1:57 pm |
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| ditto what vangondc said... they call log formations like that "strainers" and they are more dangerous than they look.
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backtoCaLi
Since 15 Mar 2008
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| Mon Dec 01, 08 2:22 pm |
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| yea, as dangerous as strainers can be.....those are about as user frindly as they get (chained to the riverbed). I would say prime grinchin spot! They have placed these logs all over the NW rivers for fish habitiat, almost always in the flatter sections of river (thankfully).
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Onad
Since 04 Mar 2005
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| Mon Dec 01, 08 10:31 pm |
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Good idea! Tear up the spawning beds... 
PS Nice Mt. biking shoes... 
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Bonetti
Since 29 Apr 2007
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wjb
Since 14 Aug 2007
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chanson
Since 31 Jan 2006
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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
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| Fri Dec 05, 08 2:18 pm |
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yeah, WTF stringer... post them pics!!! >>> you guys take the unicorn out to play while I'm stuck in the office, at least you can share some pictures 
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stringer
Since 31 Jul 2007
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Chucktown
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| Fri Dec 05, 08 4:26 pm |
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you whiners!!!
I was busy at MEPS and I am now officially in the Navy!
I'm super excited!
but unless any openings come up, my ship date isn't until september 
Then I'm off to Chucktown 
so if anybody knows of any cool shot time employment opportunities...
oh well, at least I get one more kite season in.
here's your porn
awesome spot on the sandy
there's a sand island in the river there and this little stream runs along the inside of it.
Its ankle to knee deep mostly and there's a decent current so you can go a little slower and still stay up.
Gets you a little more time on the features.
Its definitely a spot for a wakeskate or skim; not as much fun on a wakeboard.
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chanson
Since 31 Jan 2006
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| Fri Dec 05, 08 4:30 pm |
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 about the Navy...Sick buddy, we've got you for awhile longer...sK8kite is on!!
oh,
about the new winching spot and pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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lawnmower
Since 14 Dec 2007
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| Fri Dec 05, 08 4:38 pm |
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| Stringer's going to Nuke School. Maybe he'll be able to hook you up with some serious power for the winch.
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