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bulae99
Since 12 Jul 2006
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 Fri Aug 31, 07 6:15 am Where is our beautiful beach gone? Will it come back??? |
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I leave for a few days and the beach is gone! What is going on here?
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pkh
Since 27 Feb 2005
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 6:26 am |
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| Less beach, but more flat water. Too bad there's soooooooo many people out there, yesterday was nuts... I think a lot of people are visiting HR for the long weekend. |
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Hein
Since 08 Mar 2005
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:29 am |
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No shit. Too many riders in front of HR has:
Ruined the pro ponds. What ever happened
to kite low??!!!! And lonnnnng lines. Ought
to be a 20 m max if you want into the ponds.
Spoiled the wind down near the bridge where
the flat water is. Turbulence from kites upwind.
Churned the river in to a choppy mess anywhere
upwind of the bar and in the channel.
And yet certain folks still feel the need to promote,
promote, promote to bring more riders into the
sport/area.
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forrest
Since 21 Jun 2005
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Hood River
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:30 am |
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| Yea, it got pretty busy. Seems like these days there is only one little patch of really glassy flat water. I'm going to miss that when the wind blows the sand away. If we get another bunch of trees and sand this winter, we should bury a few along that finger nail sand strip that creates the kiddy pool. |
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Hein
Since 08 Mar 2005
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:33 am |
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| Forrest wrote: | | If we get another bunch of trees and sand this winter, we should bury a few along that finger nail sand strip that creates the kiddy pool. |
I recall someone mentioning that this spring
but they were instantly hammered for posting
that idea. Can't stop the herd. |
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Inept_Fun
Since 14 Apr 2005
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Hood River
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:34 am |
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It wouldnt seem so bad if people knew how to share the pool. I know that Joby has some good rules about how we can do that. Maybe he will get on here and let yall know how to share like good kids.
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forrest
Since 21 Jun 2005
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Hood River
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:35 am |
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| Yea, I think the next time we have to clean up the sandbar we just do it... Even if we only get a few logs in. |
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Mark
Since 20 Jun 2005
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:42 am |
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At this point we could plant some water/beach grass in key areas. That would give it a high point and not kill anyone.
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Hein
Since 08 Mar 2005
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:43 am |
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Yeah, I watched the wake boys ride and
they definitely have a better system than
what I was seeing in the kook pool upwind.
Seems like heading out into the channel
and then setting up for your move on the
upwind side of the pond and then downlooping
downwind to get back out to work upwind
seems like a good system. Pinching upwind
and lingering in the pond is a NO NO. (except
for me and my 18 m lines and puny kite.
Volume is a function of line length cubed so
that means that a kite with 18 m lines takes
up roughly half the aerial volume of a kite
on 23 m lines.
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forrest
Since 21 Jun 2005
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:44 am |
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I'm probably the biggest offender of hogging the flat water cause it's all I really care to ride. I'd like to hear Joby's ideas cause I try to be courteous to other riders...
The only problem I noticed yesterday was the people taking their sweet ass time walking with their kites at 12 right through the kiddie pool, but even that wasn't such a big deal cause it gave me a chance to chill. I left at 4:45 though, it probably got a lot worse after that? |
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Moto
Since 03 Sep 2006
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Still a gojo pimp!
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:46 am |
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| Hein wrote: |
Spoiled the wind down near the bridge where
the flat water is. Turbulence from kites upwind.
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Does this hapen often? Was it because there were so many kiters out? |
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forrest
Since 21 Jun 2005
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:46 am |
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| Mark wrote: | | At this point we could plant some water/beach grass in key areas. That would give it a high point and not kill anyone. |
Yea, that'd be awesome. I'd be down to work on that. What I imagine with the logs is that they'd be no more than 8 inches in diameter buried a few feet under the sand to hold it in place. |
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pkh
Since 27 Feb 2005
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Couve / Hood
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 7:48 am |
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Bring back the cold conditions, heat brings out the kooks! 
I had somebody learning (looked like his buddy was teaching him) tomahawk a kite within about a foot of me while I was riding, scared the shit out of me. I wanted to tell his "instructor" to have him put his hands in the middle of the bar, then its basically impossible to crash the kite that fast.
I think I'll be avoiding the sandbar like the plague this weekend. |
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pkh
Since 27 Feb 2005
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Couve / Hood
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 8:09 am |
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Probably most of the people showed up because I posted the pool was open...
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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 8:10 am |
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| pkh wrote: | Bring back the cold conditions, heat brings out the kooks!
I had somebody learning (looked like his buddy was teaching him) tomahawk a kite within about a foot of me while I was riding, scared the shit out of me. I wanted to tell his "instructor" to have him put his hands in the middle of the bar, then its basically impossible to crash the kite that fast.
I think I'll be avoiding the sandbar like the plague this weekend. |
I got freaking drilled by a kite several weeks ago. Riding along , sun shining, smile on my face, just kicking it........I actually heard it before it hit me . WHAM... next thing I know I am in a mess of nylon and lines. I didn't have a knife on me so I just ditched everything I had and kind of slide under his kite.
Dude, never said one word to me. Nada, zip, zero. |
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Moto
Since 03 Sep 2006
2698 Posts
Still a gojo pimp!
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 8:15 am |
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Dude - I thought you would like it when I hit you on your head  Just kidding man - it wasn't me.
Sorry to hear about that - that is freaking scary stuff - getting lines all around you - and the dude never even said anything  that sucks man.
| pdxmonkeyboy wrote: |
I got freaking drilled by a kite several weeks ago. Riding along , sun shining, smile on my face, just kicking it........I actually heard it before it hit me . WHAM... next thing I know I am in a mess of nylon and lines. I didn't have a knife on me so I just ditched everything I had and kind of slide under his kite.
Dude, never said one word to me. Nada, zip, zero. |
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tinyE
Since 21 Jan 2006
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| Fri Aug 31, 07 8:16 am |
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| pkh wrote: | Bring back the cold conditions, heat brings out the kooks!
I had somebody learning (looked like his buddy was teaching him) tomahawk a kite within about a foot of me while I was riding, scared the shit out of me. I wanted to tell his "instructor" to have him put his hands in the middle of the bar, then its basically impossible to crash the kite that fast.
I think I'll be avoiding the sandbar like the plague this weekend. |
WASN'T ME!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
and that wasn't me on monkeyman either!!!
but that's exactly why I brought up on the other thread to try and find a spot for instruction that is out of the way of riding!!! so we don't get pummeled, or worse! |
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