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patrick.a.juliano@gmail.c
Since 04 Aug 2016
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 Thu Aug 04, 16 1:08 pm lake lytle - suitable for kiting lesson |
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Hi All -
Does anyone have experience kiting at Lake Lytle, close to Rockaway beach, just north of Tillamook?
I'm taking a couple rookies out and looking for the safest places to take them. My current comfort spots are the Event Site (but it's crowded, even in the beginner zone far out on the spit) and Manzinita (but it has waves and beach goers).
I'd appreciate people's opinions on options and ideas.
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barfly
Since 31 Mar 2005
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Portland
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| Thu Aug 04, 16 4:22 pm |
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Like a lot of lakes not the best. You'll likely have frustrated and swimming rookies. There isn't much if any shore and it would be offshore wind unless you went all the way to the other side of the lake. I don't even know if there's access over there.
Rockaway doesn't get consistent wind either. It can but if it did you'd see a lot more kiters.
Take them up to Gearhart or Sunset Beach. Yes there's waves and people but the wind is nice and the waves aren't huge. Keep everyone close to shore and do the downwinder thing so they don't have to go past the break. They'll have a blast.
Manzo's problem isn't waves or people (you could go South to the park access areas where there are fewer people). It will work for rookies too but can get very windy and punchy late in the day, but hey that is what the gorge is like so may be fine for you all. Again just stay close to shore and do a downwinder so they don't have to go outside. |
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macgruber
Since 06 Dec 2011
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SE PDX volcano
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| Fri Aug 05, 16 5:53 am Jones |
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| Jones. Ft Stevens is easier than Manzo too but lighter. Lot D or B |
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Sasquatch
Since 09 Mar 2005
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| Fri Aug 05, 16 8:27 am |
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This sounds like the blind leading the blind to me.
Shallow water is what you seek. Wait for the east winds to come and take them way east on the beaches of Rooster Rock. Yes, the winds can be brutal and gusty, but plenty of shallow water.
If you have a boat, I would take your friends up to an island east of Rooster in the middle of the Columbia. Sandy beach cove, no people, lighter east winds before it picks up speed at the choke point at Rooster. The island is about in line with Multnomah Falls.
Jones Beach. No shallow water, but plenty of beach to do mini downwinders and stay close to shore.
Lot D. Well one is messing with the strong tides and potentially the Columbia River Bar. SO best to stay very close to shore.
Sauvies is great as the winds are typically light. Do mini downwinders and stay close to shore, west of the typical kite launch. Don't do it if non-kiters are on the beach.
Manzanita is typically strong wind (it can be punchy and gusty too) and the waves there ramp up quickly as opposed to Lot B to Sunset Beach access. Typically the ocean isn't the best place for newbies to start out with lessons as they are almost always looking up at the kite to see where it is, when they should be looking out for waves. They need to instinctively know how to fly the kite w/out looking at it.
WHEREVER YOU GO, be smart and don't endanger people downwind etc etc. If there are people nearby, you should move. If you go to the beach go where no one else is around. We don't want beaches and launches shut down because someone didn't make wise decisions where to teach people who to kite.
Have fun and be safe. |
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kitebot
Since 20 Feb 2007
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| Fri Aug 05, 16 11:50 am |
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| Personally I would never teach anyone on a coastal beach with waves. It's easy to forget how much we all sucked when we started kiting. Things that seem like common sense to us aren't to beginners. Shit can go wrong quick in waves with a kite down. I foresee kite mares if you go this route. There's a reason the ES is crowded, it's because it is well suited to learning. Go early in the morning on a weekday you can still score wind without the usual group of tomahawking kooks. |
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Windian
Since 28 Apr 2008
901 Posts
Newport, OR
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| Fri Aug 05, 16 1:02 pm |
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| kitebot wrote: | | Personally I would never teach anyone on a coastal beach with waves. |
I gotta disagree with you here.
I learned in the surf as did many of my friends and people I have taught. I currently have two friends I am working with right now as beginners are doing it in the surf. What you want is lots of open beach downwind of where you start because that is where they are going to go quickly. Go out in small swell with gentle whitewater rollers right off the beach and have them stay in ankle to chest deep water and not go offshore until their skills improve. They end of taking small white water doses to the face, but nothing too extreme if you choose the right beach like up there at Fort Steven area.
If I were doing up there the thing to do would be get them going and then slowly follow them with your vehicle stopping when the need help. Let them burn up miles of beach without having to walk back upwind. Trudging back upwind a kite is a time and energy drain which really does suck for anyone. Generally if shit happens it all get gets pushed inside and washes up on the beach for easy retrieval.
Just exercise ocean savviness and don't go out at the wrong beach with wrong conditions. They will probably have a blast rather than a bummer!
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wannabekiter
Since 14 May 2015
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Hood river
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| Sun Aug 07, 16 8:01 am Floras lake |
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| Go to floras lake. The best place to learn . |
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