The Big Winds Weblog

Intrepid Big Winds paddlers and friends hit the river on New Year’s Day. The rumor is that it will be an annual event.
The rest of the pics are here.

Big Winds and Naish are donating a Naish 11′6″ AST SUP board to the Providence Hood River Hearts of Gold Gala.

The board will be auctioned Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Annual Awards Dinner & Benefit Auction at the Hood River Inn.

Nikki Gregg

Hawaii based personal trainer and owner of NRG Lifestyle Fitness Training, Nikki Gregg, is bringing her aloha spirit and exclusive stand up paddle boot camp to Hood River. She will help fine tune your technique and teach you how to get the most out or your paddle sessions. This is a great way to [...]

Robbie Naish, Dave Kalama and Michi Schweiger are coming to Hood River June 18th to participate in the inaugural Hood SUP Series. This presents a rare opportunity to see the legends of all things water in action. The racing gets underway at 6:30 PM but I’d get there early to mill around and hobnob with [...]

Some goings on and special deals at Big Winds.

We’re launching two new events this summer originating at the Big Winds Event Site Center. First up, the lady SUPsters meet every Tuesday at 5:30PM beginning May 19th for an informal, introductory and just plain fun paddle session. We’re calling it the Big Winds SUPper Club. The idea is to share the joys of SUP [...]

The announcement of the bench dedication for Dave Kincaid.

Waterfront Park website

Saturday, Aug 23, from 4 to 7 PM.
Activities start at 4 PM with childrens games on the beach, then continue with hot dogs and beverages available for purchase. The band Cash Cow will be playing live music. Come one, come all to this long-awaited event!!
Waterfront Park website

Fox Sports Net
Monday through Friday, August 18-22, 5PM repeating at 9PM and 11:30PM.
Saturday August 23, 12:30PM features the finals for all of the sports.

The results are in, and the Big Winds crew absolutely cleaned up at this year’s Gorge Freestyle Frenzy! Congratulations to Tyson Poore, Whit Poore and Rob Warwick for snagging 1st, 2nd and 4th place!
All of these guys have been super-involved with our windsurfing clinics and advanced junior camps, and we are grateful to have [...]

We had an amazing Fourth of July in the Gorge this year, filled with plenty of wind, barbecued meats, and a beautiful fireworks display to top it all off. What’s more, here’s a picture of The Hook from that day! The Hook is a protected lagoon on the Columbia River here in Hood [...]

For the first time in 22 years, our annual Canada Day & Fourth of July Sale is available to our web customers! That’s right, for the first time ever you don’t need to visit our Hood River store to take advantage of our biggest in-season sale of the year!

$100 off all 2008 windsurf boards!
8% off [...]

What a great Father’s Day! I had the great pleasure of windsurfing with my two daughters and son-in-law on a gorgeously sunny, windy, classic Gorge day. What a blast!
I hope all you dads had a great time as well. Hats off to all of you!
See you on the water,
Steve

Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday to hang with us at the Sand Spit! We had an awesome time trying out the upcoming Crossbow IDS, Cabrinha’s hotly anticipated kite whose Intelligent Depower System simplifies self-landing and stands to revolutionize personal safety.
The Crossbow has seen some pretty major changes from last year, and based [...]

It was a great week to be a windsurfer/kiteboarder in the Gorge! After a chilly spring and spotty wind, things cranked up in a big way this past week, with the full range of conditions offered up.
After my latest start to the season in memory, I was committed to make up for lost time, [...]

A big thanks to spamark for risking life and limb, or at least his own personal warmth and the dryness of his camera, in shooting this nice video while balancing on a board over the frigid water of the Columbia.

There are also a bunch of photos of the event that people have posted to this [...]

Tons of people braved warm weather and blazing sunshine to join us last Saturday for our Naish Stand Up Paddling Demo, and we want to extend a hearty thank you to everyone who showed up! We also want to shout out a huge thanks to the guys at Naish for putting together this fun-filled [...]

We have rescheduled our Naish stand up demos for Saturday April 26th. We had originally planned on April 19th, but the weather is forecasted to be quite chilly this weekend.
Tell all your friends, and here’s hoping for warmer weekends in the near future!
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