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dangler

Since 26 Feb 2006
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PostThu May 31, 12 8:18 am    She's Baaaaack!!! Reply with quote

No, not Britney Spears,The sandbar, bitches. Bigger and better than ever.

WHO WANTS SOME SAND BETWEEN THEIR TOES????


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wrhammer

Since 17 Jul 2009
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PostThu May 31, 12 8:52 am     Reply with quote

About time! What a tease. She's played hard to get

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Pepi

Since 16 Jun 2006
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PostThu May 31, 12 9:03 am     Reply with quote

Let's be nice to her and show her we appreciate her.

Her schedule this month has her possibly disappearing for a couple of days again possibly, but let's see how she feels.

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forrest

Since 21 Jun 2005
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PostThu May 31, 12 9:16 am     Reply with quote

Current forecast says that's that... She's back for good. Of course a day of rain across the Columbia Basin would change all of that.

Guess this means it's time to get all the features setup!

Pepi wrote:
Let's be nice to her and show her we appreciate her.

Her schedule this month has her possibly disappearing for a couple of days again possibly, but let's see how she feels.

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Mike D

Since 28 Apr 2011
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PostThu May 31, 12 9:26 am     Reply with quote

[quote="Forrest"]Current forecast says that's that... She's back for good. Of course a day of rain across the Columbia Basin would change all of that.

Guess this means it's time to get all the features setup!

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Inept_Fun

Since 14 Apr 2005
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PostThu May 31, 12 9:28 am     Reply with quote

Guess this means it's time for me to start looking for all the summer gear...
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Sella

Since 21 Apr 2007
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PostThu May 31, 12 12:32 pm     Reply with quote

She's a beaut Clarke!

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OG

Since 07 Jun 2011
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PostThu May 31, 12 1:21 pm     Reply with quote

im stoked for it. just cannot get into the event site grass launch. Flukey and bizzy. Launching/Landing stress sucks!!

That said, thx CGKA for getting us the grass. Is still incredibly better than 08'ish when we were behind the bushes by where the kite schools (and current homeless kiters) use to all be.

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J_Matic

Since 14 Oct 2011
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PostThu May 31, 12 3:44 pm     Reply with quote

that's a mighty purty tweenie pool to play in. Get out the skim's!! Thumb's Up

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JonMalmberg

Since 15 Aug 2011
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PostThu May 31, 12 9:40 pm     Reply with quote

Awesome to have the sand back. Took a friend out tonight to teach in perfect conditions and lots of sand and shallow water... all to ourselves... Very nice.

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Weaz

Since 23 May 2012
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Beaverton
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PostFri Jun 08, 12 9:58 am     Reply with quote

Slingshot's cam makes it look like she's going away again Mad

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D-Krep It Kiter

Since 18 Jul 2011
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PostFri Jun 08, 12 1:46 pm     Reply with quote

JonMalmberg wrote:
Awesome to have the sand back. Took a friend out tonight to teach in perfect conditions and lots of sand and shallow water... all to ourselves... Very nice.


If you're working in front of the sandbar (west side) in the waist deep water like most do, be careful... I dropped in there on Wednesday during one of the lulls, and was waist deep just wondering if the wind was coming back, and then I felt a decent sized log on one of my legs... it felt like it had branches or something, because I felt it on top of my thigh, and behind my calf... so for a second or two I was flying my kite with my leg entangled in whatever it was... I easily stepped out of it, but it was pretty spooky. Couldn't see any part of it above the water. Would be really nasty to body drag into. At a rough guess, I'd say this thing was about half way down the sandbar.

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kitezilla

Since 22 Jun 2006
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PostFri Jun 08, 12 2:22 pm     Reply with quote

Sounds like a good use for an old Tide or Clorox bottle... recycle it into a marker buoy.

Some people will make a legitimate complaint that a anchored buoy may catch a kite line, and cause an accident. Probably a better design would involve some kind of a flexible hose-like pipe that would stick up, but would bend over and let a kite line escape.

Removing the hazzardous "deadhead" make trigger the response, that you are illegally destroying fish habitat.

What do you think?... ounce of prevention, nanny-state, illegality side-stepping the responsible authority for installation of official hazzardous warning markers, etc?

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Inept_Fun

Since 14 Apr 2005
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PostFri Jun 08, 12 3:07 pm     Reply with quote

Only Scooter would try and sue you for taking out a deadhead at the sandbar. Lets worry more about saving people on this one and either mark it with a buoy or take it out completely.
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Pepi

Since 16 Jun 2006
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PostFri Jun 08, 12 3:34 pm     Reply with quote

Forecast showed a slight jump in water level for the first week of June, then things should drop back down to normal very quickly.

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Pepi

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PostFri Jun 08, 12 3:36 pm     Reply with quote

Here's the link we use for corridor water levels :

http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/stp/station/stpplot/stpplot.cgi?TDAO3

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apctjb

Since 19 Aug 2007
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PostSat Jun 09, 12 6:34 am     Reply with quote

Looks like the bar is back under for the weekend with sunshine and wind in the forecast.

So no launch?

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