new addition to sandbar

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It looks like we've got a new beach and some sliders for the summer season.

Nak · Thu Jan 20, 11 2:22 pm

Woo Hoo! Should be much easier walking out to the sandbar. And, Wow, there's going to be a great bonfire this Spring....

ldhr · Since 21 Jul 2009 1489 Posts Hood River XTreme Poster

Clean-up on Aisle 9!

Gman · Since 11 Feb 2006 4911 Posts Portland Unstrapped

new parking area?

DROCK999 · Since 31 May 2007 852 Posts Left Coast Opinionated

Massive bonfire in june?

pkh · Since 27 Feb 2005 6549 Posts Couve / Hood Honored Founder

Trippy how the sand is reforming... how cool is it that every year our playground reshapes itself Very Happy

K2 · Since 30 Apr 2009 274 Posts Hood River, OR Obsessed

Ya I think it's pretty cool that the sandbar changes every year. I can't remember if there is always a kiddie pool or not, can somebody verify?

kitemare · Since 23 Mar 2010 265 Posts Seattle, wa Obsessed

I was just out yesterday walking around, there is so much more wood out in the "school zone" than in front of the event site. It's ridiculouls.

I don't know if the kiddie pool will be as big as it was last year but it will be there more than likely in the spring when the water level is high.

As for the area in front of the "pro" slider area. It is like a sheer cliff drop off. I put a stick out, a foot out from the bank, it was over 2' deep. no idea how deep it gets but I doubt you will be able to walk across it anymore.

Sorry the pic is so grainy, my camera phone sucks. 3mp. Whooh Sad

Wind Slither · Since 04 Mar 2005 2620 Posts The 503 METAL

Hey, speaking of new additions...

pkh? Cool

sirmichaelo · Since 26 Mar 2010 353 Posts Maui Obsessed

The windsurfers have to be pissed. They just keep losing the battle year after year.

Mother Nature just adds insult to injury. It's like watching the dinosaurs slowly give away their world to a bunch of nimbler creatures. At least there will come a day when I can tell my currently non-existent children about 'windsurfers' while they ask me again and again about what they were like and show one more time how big their boards were.

By the way, what happens when the sandbar extends all the way across the event site? Will windsurfers be confined to a pond? Is is going to be like some kind of sand-Tron motorcycle game where they just circle and circle until they crash? Will kiters be able to access the sandbar from either side of the Event Site?

Perhaps it's just karma for kicking us out to some backroad parking lot in the early 2000's.

eric · Since 13 Jan 2006 1861 Posts XTreme Poster

I like the mixed use of windsurfers and kiters at the Event Site. Plenty of room for all, regardless of wind toy of choice.

Eric

forrest · Fri Jan 21, 11 10:24 am

Yea, it will be mixed use. Mixed use happens everywhere but in Hood River. Almost like we need a Civil Rights movement to get mixed use.

There is a project in the works to dredge and move sand btw. Port of HR has been working on the permits, it's a couple years out, but be ready to give your feedback when the time comes.

WINDUDE · Since 10 Jun 2010 558 Posts GORGE! Addicted

windsurfing at the event site blows anyway, DOUG's or THE HATCH or.......

windsurfing will not die!

I can't wait to do either kiting or poleskippin, I'm freakin out

but yeah it''s ugly down there, let me know when there will be a clean up party, I'll bring beer

taycar · Since 11 Jan 2010 111 Posts HR Stoked

Ditto to helping with a clean up party. I'll bring home brew. Can hardly contain myself thinking about this coming season.

forrest · Fri Jan 21, 11 2:23 pm

Clean-ups usually happen in the May timeframe. Thanks to some idiots poring 5 gallon buckets of diesel fuel on the fires back in 2007, we can no longer have bonfires.

mackconsult · Since 13 Jul 2010 30 Posts Vancouver, WA

That is just plain old insane ..... what a waste of good fuel, and way to trash the environment .....

Bettyboarder · Fri Jan 21, 11 3:08 pm

Maybe we can rope those logs together and make a foot bridge across to the sandbar now Surprised