and Mt Baker
I spent the night at my son Demian's place, long enough to hang out with the family with the plan to return to spend more time. I set off in the morning for my daughter's place in southern Washington, some 60 mi up the Columbia River Gorge from Portland.
A beautiful area with Mt Adams to the north
and Mt Hood to the south,
the Columbia River Gorge and many other rivers feeding it
My daughter lives in BZ Corner, Wa where there's a gas station/convenience store, The Logs restaurant and numerous river businesses. This is a prime area for river sports: rafting and kayaking, windsurfing and kite boarding. My son-in-law is a raft guide in fact. A prime rafting river, the White Salmon, runs literally in my daughter's backyard, a frigid river with big rapids and waterfalls. A short but exciting ride including a 10ft waterfall when the river flow permits. Often, like right now, the water is too high to run the waterfall.
The Columbia River, right at that spot at Hood River, is a mecca for windsurfing and kite board due to the frequent high winds blowing upstream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9GrZzeXGOc
There were one or two windsurfers who had a foil on the skeg that allowed them to lift the whole board up a foot over the water, gliding smoothly along like they were levitating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nkhwQnkWHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5kfQs-CgPs
One day we took a little hike up on Mt Hood.
Ryan, Opa, Lucien and Charlotte
