Start

Put in at Viento State Park

This is a part of the awesome Gorge Downwind Champs - basically the bottom half of the course and if you register for the race, there are free shuttles taking you and your boat downriver (you read that right) to surf back up.

Finish

Hood River

Run Length

12 km

Weather & more

Summer! So the land heats up and the wind is funnelled up the Columbia River.

If you take a Northerly Route for the middle part of the course you go via Swell City, which has some cracking waves, but given you are going upriver is not the fastest route for race day... but super fun to play in.

Contributor

Xen Gladstone