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trudyl
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:29 pm Post subject: 1-24-2014 Rooster Rock Pictures |
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Un-sailable again at Rooster Rock
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westender
Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 1288 Location: Portland / Gorge
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Ya that's pretty windy. Still too cold for me.
How can they get the barges up the river through this???
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washy
Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 8
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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great pics! thanks
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jimoakes
Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 172
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Wow, rainbows drifting by at 60MPH! My heart beats faster just looking at the photo's. I love our Gorge wind machine.
Thanks Trudy
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biffmalibu
Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 556
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:14 pm Post subject: Pretty rainbows. |
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Amazing conditions.
I discourage anyone from attempting to windsurf in that. It's not fun and very risky, for obvious reasons. You will be lucky to make your jibe and return to shore, no matter how much ballast your Johnson provides. Not macho. Only stupid. Driving by Cascade Locks yesterday, it was the windiest easterly I have ever seen there. It must have been 35-40mph at Cascade Locks. Much less risky and much more sailable.
Learn to play on snow.
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20936
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Weren't conditions about like this in that famous video of Pat Dougherty sailing Rooster Rock?
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wdsurf
Joined: 22 May 1999 Posts: 335
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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mike kitts using a 50 ltr. hipertech and a 2.8
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westender
Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 1288 Location: Portland / Gorge
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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IIRC haven't seen the video in a while but Trudy's top pictures show quite a bit more wind than what Kitts sailed. If you made it past the pilings you'd get murdered.
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Bond1
Joined: 25 Apr 2000 Posts: 169
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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There was also video of Danny from Chianti's (formerly The Tree House......does anyone remember Chianti's or The Tree House?) sailing Rooster back in the day, pretty much getting flattened. I don't remember it as being as windy as in these photos however. These photos from yesterday are the kind of day where, when you're driving westbound doing slightly over the speed limit, the spray is passing you.
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bwill808
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