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Video: Secret Spot, Snakes and Beez

USA_Eli_A - 11-8-2009 at 08:07 AM

http://www.vimeo.com/6041412

sunset-Jim - 11-8-2009 at 08:17 AM

Nice vid Eli, loved those angles.

jellis - 11-8-2009 at 08:25 AM

Columbia River between The Dalles and Boardman on the Washington side. Am I hot or cold Eli?

USA_Eli_A - 11-8-2009 at 08:52 AM

thanks jim

wrong state, shhhh

wedding on the coast this weekend, so I'll bring mish and call to confirm we can make it over.

PHREERIDER - 11-8-2009 at 09:47 AM

nice session, love the following shots

nwsurfwakeskate - 11-8-2009 at 09:47 AM

sweet vid Eli.

is that Jones beach and the jibetorium?

sunset-Jim - 11-8-2009 at 09:53 AM

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Originally posted by USA_Eli_A


wedding on the coast this weekend, so I'll bring mish and call to confirm we can make it over.


who's the sukka?

lol... j/k suppose to be some nice weather anyway

USA_Eli_A - 11-8-2009 at 10:35 AM

guys there is no way I'm giving up this location, if it isn't already obvious

BeamerBob - 11-8-2009 at 10:54 AM

I nailed it in about 3 minutes on google earth. Great spot wide open to the wind it appears.

nwsurfwakeskate - 11-8-2009 at 10:55 AM

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Originally posted by USA_Eli_A
guys there is no way I'm giving up this location, if it isn't already obvious


is that why you put the lat and lon right at the beginning of the movie???

seems a little counter intuitive?


that place is WAY east on the river. looks nice though. I should have suspected that when I saw the brown terrain all around.

I highly doubt that spot will ever have crowding issues simply because people would have to pass up jones, sandbar, rufus and roosevelt inorder to go there.

USA_Eli_A - 11-8-2009 at 11:40 AM

WOW you are quick?!:tumble:

and compared to all the locations you listed above, the swell and the riding doesn't even come close to comparing.

you just need to watch out for rattle snakes and bee hives.

:eekdrull:

counter intuitive, 20 yrs of kiting and I'm only intuitive, but my session count rounded 200 days since last november.

nwsurfwakeskate - 11-8-2009 at 12:43 PM

swell better then even the hatchery?

aren't you in seaside? I'm surprised you would leave the coast and head inland for swell. :puzzled:

USA_Eli_A - 11-8-2009 at 12:54 PM

not much wind. the core group has been spreading it's wings during the fog.

Head High Swell man, amazing! nearly 40 on the wind meter.

I think I might want a kite boat.

nwsurfwakeskate - 11-8-2009 at 01:23 PM

wow that sounds nice!

yeah we've been socked in up here for the last week as well. first the heat wave killed it. then we got 1 week of good wind and now the cold air is killin it.

I did manage to sneak in an 1 1/2 hour session on my lunch break yesterday though while a nice southerly front was pushing through :cool:



btw a kite boat would be sick! My neighbor has a hobie 16 with a broken mast that I keep dreaming about modding into a kite boat.

I'd like to do something like this with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWgDwNj-2P0

Maven454 - 11-8-2009 at 01:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by nwsurfwakeskate
btw a kite boat would be sick! My neighbor has a hobie 16 with a broken mast that I keep dreaming about modding into a kite boat.

I'd like to do something like this with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWgDwNj-2P0


I think Todd is currently working on a kiteboat.

USA_Eli_A - 11-8-2009 at 02:04 PM

uh, dood, keep me posted on that kite boat, i mean if you need testers, I got kites and a wetsuit and certainly won't go litigate

stetson05 - 12-8-2009 at 12:41 AM

Wow, Next time you come that far East you need to at least let us see what it's all about. Got a link to give realtime info on the spot. U2U sent

action jackson - 12-8-2009 at 05:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by USA_Eli_A
uh, dood, keep me posted on that kite boat, i mean if you need testers, I got kites and a wetsuit and certainly won't go litigate


You could always try the kitecat here in sunny florida!.......aj:roll: