Gorge US - The Mecca of Wind Sports

Gorgeous here in the gorge, what an amazing place.
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[@boardmeetingusa9405]

3 months in Hood, 3 months in Mex, 3 months in Maui, 3 months at home = fun times. Big props to the Crissy Field crew. Amazing wingers and the coolest group of watermen and women. Always the best videos from Clay. 🙌

[@OSheaGlobalAlliances]

Sherman and the bay have been sort of a bummer this summer. Hood river is so cool. You can see why people that can will trade seasons between the gorge and Baja or Maui. But you have to admit that it’s a privileged lifestyle that only a few can truly swing due to family and spouses and your vocation and of course your financial setup. Cheers to those who can! The goal for the rest of us is to stay in shape and stay stoked till we get there

[@Nicowindprod]

Nice to hear you so inspired, changing landscape and travelling is the essence of many humans I believe.

[@mikeinhoodriver]

Glad you enjoyed it here. It truly is a great place to live. After 45 years of being here, still cant get enough!

[@sauce25]

This is like the kiteboarding podcast i never knew I needed.

[@TylerKaraszewski]

Hey, look, its me at 5:34 (sail number 371). I'm glad you had fun visiting!

[@yankee38]

Another great post sir. Just got back from a week in the gorge. Rented an Airbnb in white salmon and had epic conditions almost every day. I feel truly blessed to live within three hours of this magical place.

[@Nico_GER7]

Would love to go there!

[@albertoespinosa2773]

Nico looking forward a bump and jump video from the Gorge , would be epic......

[@mrricksurfs249]

Nice man looks fun 👏👏👍

[@JeepdudeFL]

I first went to the Gorge in 1987 fresh out of college, spent the whole summer and went back many times after.....older now, but still think about going every summer!

[@burmy1552]

I used to live a couple hours away in Hillsboro. I often had a hard time deciding whether I'd go east or west. The gorge is great but those jetty to shipwreck downwinders in perfect side on conditions on the coast are amazing. Most days we had all the waves to ourselves. Oregon is easily one of the best windsport areas on the planet.

[@nataliedavidson4389]

Gotta have roots and wings. Being totally "unattached" ain't all its cracked up to be.

[@BrentDuty]

This is the future. A lot of the guys from Florida are hitting the Gorge and other places during the summertime. It sucks here at the moment and it only lasts a couple of months, but it’s brutal. I think the natives were following the food, we are following stoke. It’s nice to be able to do these things and something to look forward to as well.

[@joemiller8029]

The Endless Summer - "in search of the perfect wave"... - may be time to watch it again...

[@scp8412]

amazing!

[@windlinewatersports]

Best part of the gorge, you don't have to be as worried about your car getting broken into like California

[@burmy1552]

The gorge is pretty safe. I got my car broken into kiting at Sauvie Island back in 03. The levee makes it impossible to see thieves when you're on the beach. There was a guy on the beach with a walkie talkie I saw while I was kiting. As soon as they broke into my car and got what little I left in there the dude ran off the beach and I knew as soon as he started running. Never got my car broken into all the years I kited at Sherman though.

[@floodo1]

Yeah man long term I’m trying to have a couple places to stay, so when I don’t like the weather I can head to the other spot. Also want the benefits of not being in the same place all the time, like interacting with different people or sceneries.

[@DmitryAvramenko]

Am I correct to assume that this idea of 3 months here, 3 months there only works for rich or retired people who don’t need to work ? Any of you people commenting, have a job? :)

[@robtangent4664]

Crissy is only one of many places to sail in the Bay Area. While the Gorge is the wind sports vacation Mecca in North America, if you count every sailing venues in the Bay Area, I bet you'd find just as many people if not more as the Gorge. BTW, I went to the Gorge twice but got skunked.

[@burmy1552]

It's rare you get skunked in the gorge. If Stevenson or the event site aren't going off you can almost always just drive east to rufus or other spots and find wind. On the rare days that the gorge isn't happening you can sometimes luck out hitting the coast without having to share the water like you do at Crissy or Hood River.

[@ryandorsey157]

Most people have to work...which most often requires staying in one place. Also, a week-long vacation in Hood River in the summer can cost several thousand dollars. A house in Hood River is a million dollars. You live in a bubble. Maybe your nomad logic would make sense if swell paid and waves fed bellies.

[@bikesbeersbeats]

😮

[@burmy1552]

There's lotsa people doing the digital nomad thing and living out of their vans. It can be done cheap. Plenty of places to van camp within an hour of HR for not that much $.

[@bikesbeersbeats]

@@burmy1552 yeah I had to double take this comment. I’ve never spent over $1000 for a week at HR for kitesurfing.

[@benchcomptons]

What's the deal with those black rabbits? Are they wild in Oregon?

[@clayisland]

"wild" to the this area on the coast, maybe domesticated and then turned loose...

[@Thatspec1]

Always enjoyed your edits Clay but... this vid makes it clear that the Hatchery has reached critical mass, there's no more room here to foil safely. Saw myself foil by and a few other locals but 99% of those faces I don't recognize, they're from elsewhere.

[@dcmackintosh]

July and August weekend afternoons are busy, but there are still plenty of quieter days.

[@BrentDuty]

It does look very crowded. I feel like this in Florida when the tourists show up and hog up all the great weather and I can’t get a parking spot. Soon foilers will be keeping secret spots and the surfing cycle starts all over 🤷‍♂️

[@robadair]

I found the band of congestion is in front of the put-in area and you only need to go 1/4-1/2 mile upstream or downstream and it's way more mellow. Also, the telephoto lens makes it look worse than it is. The place is pure magic.

[@Stanton_High]

Didn't look crowded to me, PLENTY of waves for everyone

[@Butlerfamily623]

Dude. Back before windsurfing died.

[@snowpigpow]

Polio on the rise!

[@wthomas5697]

Maui is the mecca.

[@andreferreira6620]

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[@kitingforlife]

Wow… such a naive view of both traditional cultures and the modern life dependencies. Sure, Gorge is phenomenal, but unless you have substantial resources it is very expensive to live there. So, if you have no other obligations and limitless financial resources, follow this guy’s advice.

[@mtexas7306]

Wow, you must be fun at parties….

[@kitingforlife]

@@mtexas7306 hmm... personal attack instead of merit... good job.

[@mtexas7306]

@@kitingforlife sorry that I offended you… good luck.

[@burmy1552]

I used to work at Intel in Hillsboro. Compressed work week doing 3/12s and 4/12s every other. I wasn't rich by any means but I got alot of time in on the water or up on the mountain. The house I bought on a pond in H'boro was 185k. Same house is still only about 250k.

[@shreddagorge]

Don't lie... it's terrible here... not worth the trip!! 😆😆

[@mr.force1036]

the place sucks, overrated.

[@shreddagorge]

So true.