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lykaneagle
Since 14 Apr 2011
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Oregon City
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 Wed Sep 07, 11 7:25 am rooster rock easterlies |
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It seems the entire summer went by without my being able to get some water time in. I'm still a newb and was wondering if RR is a good place for me to get some teabagging in. Since the wind and the water are both going the same direction, would I end up in Troutdale or is it pretty newb friendly? Are there better times to be there than others? Like when it's not nuking........
Thanks!!!
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Nak
Since 19 May 2005
4302 Posts
Camas
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| Wed Sep 07, 11 7:46 am |
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As long as the wind is not nuking or super gusty, RR is a great beginner spot. Just make sure you hike a ways east so that you have a bit of breathing space. Make sure you get back to shore before you run out of beach to land on. When the wind drops off in the afternoon it can drop to zero pretty quick, but it can also stabilize in the low teens for an hour or two. Know how to reverse relaunch your kite; sometimes that's the only way to get it back in the air when the wind gets real light. Waist deep water is the best place to practice that. Right now the East half of RR has tons of waist deep water!  But remember, beware the dreaded VS.  |
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Sasquatch
Since 09 Mar 2005
2102 Posts
PNW
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| Wed Sep 07, 11 9:13 am Re: rooster rock easterlies |
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| lykaneagle wrote: | | I'm still a newb and was wondering if RR is a good place for me to get some teabagging in. |
Captain America and his posse would love to give you a few lessons on tea bagging.
Rooster is also good for newbies to body drag in the waist to chest deep shallows, but like Nak said, best to do it when not so gusty and or lighter.
Go in the late afternoon aka high tea at 4pm; get your tea bagging on then head out for some body dragging in the shallows. |
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lykaneagle
Since 14 Apr 2011
76 Posts
Oregon City
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| Wed Sep 07, 11 10:22 am |
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| Excellent! Thanks! You guys are very helpful. It's nice to get good, solid answers without feeling like an idiot. I only have a 13m, but am 230 so 20 or below is what I'm hoping to get. Im afraid to ask, Nak..........VS? |
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FlyDunes
Since 09 Oct 2007
1034 Posts
Aloha
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| Wed Sep 07, 11 11:17 am |
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Viet Schlong. Naked guys of dubious morals lurking in the bushes.
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taycar
Since 11 Jan 2010
111 Posts
HR
Stoked
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| Thu Sep 08, 11 8:06 am |
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| My wife and I came across VS this last Saturday. At the time I was unaware of VS... Is there an easier way to get down to the beach at rooster? We walked east which is where the VS encounters occurred; I was ignorant of the dangers of walking east at rooster. |
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kitezilla
Since 22 Jun 2006
453 Posts
gorge
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| Thu Sep 08, 11 8:39 am |
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I took a beginner to Rooster yesterday... what a waste of time... makes you appreciate the West wind in the Gorge.
I had not been there for a few years, and all of a sudden, I remembered something about the LOWER wind situation at Rooster. From the parking lot, the river looks great for a 12 M kite...little whitecaps, etc... So then, you walk and walk and walk about half way along the island, and then, the wind feels perfect....ALL RIGHT! you say...we lucked out...perfect for a beginner! So you rig and launch the kite and for about 10 seconds, the wind is perfect...and THEN... you hit the first of the GIANT LULLS... HOLES THAT LAST 40 SECONDS...the kite falls into the water and then, you notice that you are drifting toward the kite, with no hope of relaunching it.
The answer to this problem of low wind at Rooster, is to not only walk and walk and walk, but walk and walk and walk and walk and walk some more, until you are at the east end of the island. Yesterday, the guys that did that got about 45 minutes more of decent kiting than the guys that only walked half way around the island.
High wind at Rooster is for advanced kiters only, and it is very gusty, but at least you get to kite for a while....then, when the wind starts to die...watch out, because the way the wind dies, at Rooster, is "Death, by giant lulls and remaining gusts". The current makes you drift toward your kite, and the lines goes slack... and then POW the gust rips the kite off the water.
That's Rooster for you... with the big sand beach, it sure looks like the perfect place to kite, but... |
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Campbell
Since 07 Sep 2008
409 Posts
Camas, WA
Obsessed
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| Thu Sep 08, 11 8:50 am |
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| Yeah you're right Rooster sucks. I wouldn't go there. If you could take the other 75 kites on the water last Saturday with you that would be great too. I'll make sure and hold that sucky ass place down all by myself. I mean, it's really gonna suck ass but somebody's gotta do it... |
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Nak
Since 19 May 2005
4302 Posts
Camas
Site Lackey
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| Thu Sep 08, 11 9:15 am |
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| Yesterday wasn't great for wind at the rock, but there are some great days. When the RR sensor is showing West and it's Easterly elsewhere, the transition zone is going to suck. The best RR Easterlies are on uniformly sunny days from Stevenson to PDX, and steady Easterlies showing on all sensors from Skamania to Troutdale. |
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kitezilla
Since 22 Jun 2006
453 Posts
gorge
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| Thu Sep 08, 11 12:51 pm |
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| vancougar wrote: | | Yeah you're right Rooster sucks. |
At times... but only at times. The purpose of my post was to help out a beginner kiter. Sorry, vancougar, if you thought I was slamming the Rooster.
In the last 20 years, I have had some great times there. Check out the old Oceanic video by Dave Russel of Rushwind Sails to see the "soul" of Rooster... "the heart of the monster", so to speak. Bill Klein named it "BIG EAST" in 1987. On the big days it is not for the faint of heart... I don't care how small your kite is.
No site in the Gorge sucks all the time or is awesome all the time. People like Nak know the difference...you can profit by following his advice on the nature of the west end of the Gorge, with east or west wind. |
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GorgeKite.com
Since 17 Mar 2008
226 Posts
Hood River
Stoked
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| Sun Sep 11, 11 7:39 am cock rock rocks |
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| get out of bed bitches |
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chrissmack
Since 08 Jun 2005
526 Posts
portland
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| Sun Sep 11, 11 8:09 am |
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| kitezilla wrote: | | HOLES THAT LAST 40 SECONDS...the kite falls into the water and then, you notice that you are drifting toward the kite, |
sure, there are days when RR is blowing east, and troutdale is blowing nothing or even light west. those are not going to be the best of days at RR. when it's raging, and blowing all the way through = great days.
once a friend riding on the east wind went downwind toward the parking lots, kite plops in the water. 2 minutes later, he relaunched his kite on the incoming WEST wind. not enough wind to ride, but people were still riding the east wind at the east end of RR. |
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Kataku2k3
Since 14 Aug 2005
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Los Angeles, CA
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