Columbia Gorge Windsurfing [2023]
Windsurfing in the Hood and Columbia rivers near Hood River and Mosier, Oregon. Shot on GoPro 11 July 7-10th (HR) and August 26th (Rock Creek, Mosier). Bonus gear malfunction… wait till the end!
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A Tribute to Christian Marty
By Laurie Nadel
Pilot Christian Marty is hailed as a hero for steering the blazing aircraft away from a densely populated center of town. The crash killed all 110 people aboard the supersonic jetliner on its way across the Atlantic.
A Blast From The Past
By Laurie Nadel
Everyone remembers the first time . . . like falling in love . . . the gentle kiss, on a summer afternoon, long ago . . . and the first rush, as you realize something wonderful is about to happen.
Lake Garda
By John Chao
“The tour buses would bring the old people and they would sit on the beaches until 1:00 pm. Then the wind would blow them back to their hotel rooms and they would say, ‘Torbole Bad!We will never come back!’”
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Paris Indoor: 2016
Robby Naish, Robert Teriitehau and Erik Thiémé ensured the entertainment value of this year’s Paris indoor event!! This is their last jump on the basin and the final heat of slalom.
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Personal Choices, Poetic Intentions
I just got done reading your interview with Mike (Gebhardt) and think his candor combined with Annie (Leibovitz’s) photography make for one of the strongest pieces of...
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Cyclonic Congratulations for Flying High!
I’ve read a flock of pilot reports on various flying machines, but very few that signaled the pure joy of flight that you share in your Windsurfer’s trek...
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Fire Readers Against the Grain
The only magazine I have chosen to renew is American Windsurfer. Your magazine continues to help me through the doldrums of everyday life. My soon-to-be four year old son thinks it’s pretty cool too!
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Another Legend for Beauty and Tears
Really like the article about John Kerry. Seems he and I have travelled several similar paths, though I was an infantry officer in Vietnam, he was a damn sailor. (Thank God, I didn’t get into his politics, however).
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Working Joe’s, Warning Wows!
Wow! Now let me say it again, WOW! You absolutely blew me away with your dramatic presentation of the windsurfing lifestyle and the people who live it...
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Second Chance Enthusiasm
I’m a photographer stuck in the office between assignments and stock shooting. Took your new issue to lunch and got so excited over the whole piece I was jumping outa my skin.
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Groping for Global Peace
Beauty Queen with a propensity to chase wind and windmills: Writer Linda Grover’s passion for windsurfing has put everything on the line…
1999 Equipment Preview with Ken Winner
Every year I see innovations like these and wish I had come up with them.
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The Dawn of a New Age
Year in the Life of PWA: PART I
Original 34 Page Article: Presented Here in Two Parts
Gone With The Wind
It was on a cold, lonely island in Maine that I began to see what windsurfing and maybe the destiny of the human race are all about.
The History of the Columbia River Gorge
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The TransAtlantic Windemption
I am alive, flying down the biggest swell of my life in the middle of the Atlantic. Best of all my goal, the Khlebnikov, is in plain sight. This joyous moment, however, is short-lived.
Naomi & Newman Darby – Part II
PART II of Naomi and Newman Darby Interview: Full and Un-edited.