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Big Winds Junior Team had a strong showing at the Pistol River Wave Contest this past weekend. Fiona Wylde rocked the show at the Pistol River SUP event. Seen here getting ready to paddle out with Robby Naish, Fiona, 14, had a great windsurfing contest showing too, placing 5th in the Women’s and 8th in [...]

Updated 6/29/2011: Mosier emerges. For quite awhile, the Mosier launch was farther underwater than a lot of Bank of America mortgages. Finally, it has been bailed out by the dam operators. Updated 5/31/2011 with images of Mosier. The flooded Mosier launch site, looking north under the I-84 bridge The flooded Mosier launch site, looking north [...]

Steve got into a close finish at the Oregon Open Ocean Classic SUP race. Here’s a quick summary and here is the flickr album. Even more photos are here, on Stacey Evert’s SmugMug site.

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Big Winds’ Matt (Suds) Luchsinger and Matt Elsasser lit up the sky at the Bridge of the Gods Kite Festival, August 7th at the East Point kite beach, both making to the semi-finals in the ultra-competitive expert men’s division. Along with our kite department manager, TJ Gulizia, the two Matts bring a wealth of kiteboarding [...]

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Final Standings The opening race video Race #4 video Final race video

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Big Winds is offering free windsurfing lessons at Windfest, CGWA’s big weekend event at the Hood River Event Site, this weekend, June 26-27. You can demo gear, attend clinics and party it up with music by Tony Smiley Saturday night. There’s a big ol’ swap meet at the Expo Center Sunday morning, too. Toys!

Big Winds will be contributing all the SUP boards for the “Paddle Benefit,” a fundraiser for First Descents (young adults with cancer). The event will be held Sunday, June 6th at the Hood River Waterfront Park, with registration beginning at 11AM. The kayaking experts at Outdoor Play are your hosts for this very special event.

The Hood SUP Series gets underway in a couple of weeks. Here’s the lowdown.

The Big Winds SUPper Club is underway, Tuesday nights starting at 5:30PM. Free SUP paddling for the ladies, running through July 13th. More info here.

The crew at Big Winds is super stoked to announce our Big Winds Beach Bash on Sunday, May 23, 2010 at the Hood River Event Site. The latest new gear from all our great brands in Windsurfing, Kiteboarding and Stand Up Paddleboarding will be available for free demos from 10-5. More details will be forthcoming [...]

North Kites will be premiering their new DVD at the Skylight Theatre in Hood River on April 22nd. Tickets are $7 with all proceeds benefiting KB4C. Check out the trailer at North Kites where you can also register for a free copy of the DVD.