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Article: Blown away.(windsurfing and other outdoor activities at Hood River, Oregon)
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- Skiing
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Hood River, Oregon, is the only ski town on earth where wind calls the shots. And at sunset on a summer afternoon, as the snowy cone of Mount Hood towers over the horizon, it seems as if every card-carrying skier on earth has chased the breeze to one place. * On a highway shoulder along the Columbia River Gorge, hundreds of cars trucks and vans - their bumpers plastered with ski and snowboard stickers - are shoehorned into makeshift parking lanes. Around the vehicles, everyone is scrambling against time. Men and women, broad-shouldered and tanned, shimmy into brightly colored wet suits and hustle equipment - sailboards and masts, harnesses and helmets - to the riverside, ...
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