Another high-wind session at the Gorge on June 7th 2011. This time in the East at Arlington. Photographer & enthusiastic river ripper Vlado Sklenar (photovlado.com) captured some great moments of high-wind sailing.Read more...

High wind windsurfing and kiting in the eastern Gorge. Tuesday's satellite image showed a classic marine layer to the west, clear and sunny out east. The afternoon forecast called for 40kts out at Arlington and boy did it ever deliver! June 7th, 2011.View clip...

BigWinds.com, one of the leading windsurfing shops in the Gorge and the US "Windsurfing" magazine are introducing the first ever BIG LOOP contest on the Columbia River Gorge.Read more...

Demo the latest and greatest gear all weekend!Head for Hood River in June for the annual Gorge Windfest, the ever-popular event hosted by the Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association (CGWA).You will find a beach full of sails and boards to test drive on the water, along with a full schedule of free clinics for all abilities and free introductory lessons offered by a local windsurfing school.Read more... 

Ripper: Michael Rossmeier / AUTLocation: Rio Vista, Sacramento River / USA (C) Photo: Sandra Schennach

http://static.grindtv.com/player/optics.swf?sa=1&si=1&i=56696&sct=outdoorThe magical event played out on the Turnagain Arm in the Cook Inlet near Girdwood, thanks to a phenomenon called a tidal bore, caused when the leading edge of an incoming tide pushes against an opposing current or the direction of a river. This creates actual tidal waves.