1980s windsurfing Archives - Mr. Local History Project https://mrlocalhistory.org/tag/1980s-windsurfing/ History and Gossip from New Jersey Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:27:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/mrlocalhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-Mr-local-History-250-Logo-theme.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 1980s windsurfing Archives - Mr. Local History Project https://mrlocalhistory.org/tag/1980s-windsurfing/ 32 32 168989768 Windsurfing On the Columbia River Gorge in the 80s https://mrlocalhistory.org/windsurfing-on-the-columbia-river-gorge-in-the-80s/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/windsurfing-on-the-columbia-river-gorge-in-the-80s/#respond Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:21:19 +0000 https://mrlocalhistory.org/?p=84867 Views: 884 Before kiteboarding, before wing foiling, and before extreme sports filled television screens, there was windsurfing, and nowhere captured its spirit quite like the Columbia River Gorge. Throughout the 1980s, this remarkable corridor between Oregon and Washington became the epicenter of the sport, where legendary sailors, iconic beaches, and legendary locations like the Wind… Read More »Windsurfing On the Columbia River Gorge in the 80s

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]]> https://mrlocalhistory.org/windsurfing-on-the-columbia-river-gorge-in-the-80s/feed/ 0 84867 Remembering the Columbia River Gorge’s Wind Ranch in the 80s https://mrlocalhistory.org/remembering-the-gorges-wind-ranch/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/remembering-the-gorges-wind-ranch/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:29:37 +0000 https://mrlocalhistory.org/?p=84780 Views: 1,838 Ah, who remembers the Wind Ranch in Bingen, Washington? Just across the bridge from Hood River was a place, no, an iconic place, that remains now only in my memory. This post is more of a community plea to help us who traveled from all over the world to windsurf on the Columbia… Read More »Remembering the Columbia River Gorge’s Wind Ranch in the 80s

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