Normally I spend some more time in the Hood, but this time it was in and out.
Although we’ve done a lot of stuff in the past weeks and I’ve had a blast.
Hood River is were the Slingshot office is based, along the Columbian Gorge River.
They get some pretty epic conditions all over the place, we scored some good wind for the photoshoot.
Can’t wait for the pics to arrive to have a re-buzz.
The Hood River locals are always amped to set shit up and make things happen.
It’s great, the guys from 2nd Wind and the Slider Project put their hands together and made a rail jam happen.
The wind was kinda sketchy when I was out, but it was still fun to be out there with the guys.
It was a good weekend.
The necessary party went down, we even got to go snowboarding up at mt. Hood.
That was epic, like 15 of us got driven up the mountain by the guys from Trew.
Had a nice session, started of kinda foggy but it cleared nicely later.
It was a cool bunch of people I've been hanging with here, everyone's pretty chill and on the same page.
Also our good mate Buster Tronolone came by with his crew, Papa Tron, Mama Tron, Chris Tron and Shanti Berg. It was Buster's B-day, so we drank a few beers and had some fun. :)
Ben Wilson also came into town, had a few laughs and giggles with him...Gheghe Uncle Benny!
His new movie is out as well, Coming Together, make sure to check that out.
Just getting all my stuff together as we’re flying out tomorrow.
Wish me luck on the travel, you never know ;)
Ahoeha!
R
We spend one day in Hood River, then Aaron and I jumped in the car with Chris Schey.
Schey works for Slingshot and is rep for California, he organized a little demo weekend at Sherman Island, close to San Francisco.
We had a pretty solid drive from Portland, 10hrs total or something, grabbed a hotel on the way…made it quite comfortable! ☺
I had all my new 2010 gear which I’m really stoked on, the new Darkside is definitely a good call.
It’s our new kite specific wakestyle board. More info will follow soon…
Also on the new Lunacy we freshn’d up the looks and is still rocking strong.
2010 Fuels are doing what they are supposed to do, so I’m stoked!
We just did some minor tweaks and it flies solid as.
Still super direct, consistent through the loop, good feel.
Lance Koudele and Adam Uyemera came out on the trip to shoot some pics n vids.
Didn’t really score it at Sherman and the forecast didn’t look so promising either.
We even drove down to San Fran one night and tried to check out the city, we had a little party going on.
We decided to cruise back to Hood River the next day as the wind was looking better and we really had to get the shoot done…
So on to the Gorge.
Some fun times always, good riding and maybe some snowboarding. ☺
Keep ya posted…
Peace!
Ruben
Norfolk-Portland-San Fran
From Tripping in Photos
It was Aaron, Bellsy and Chucktown mr. Blair renting a house together and waiting for the right conditions.
We were all so motivated for another session on the rails.
Unfortunately the wind wasn’t with us this time, but it gave us a good opportunity to chill out and totally relax before heading out to Portland.
It was a funny trip, Bellsy was supposed to fly out the night before us but his flight got canceled.
We ended up getting a hotel room and had a few beers, then Aaron and I flew out early the next morning while Bellsy was still passed out.
We had a harsh deal with the check-in, this dude from United airlines just didn’t get it and charged us like 625bucks for our luggage.
This guy made me feel sick and I didn’t wanna argue to bad with him, so Azza just threw his creditcard down to safe us a headache.
(My wallet got stolen last week so Azza is paying it all these days ☺).
Anyways, we went on to the flight and we had an hour delay due to some technical problems, this made us miss our connection flight.
Hassle of the travel.
So now we’re in the Gorge for a day and today we drive down to California.
This is about a 9-10hr drive.
We’re going with Schey from Slingshot to do a demo weekend and a photo/filmshoot.
We’re well excited and we’ll make it a sick trip.
By the end of July I should be able to start putting out WebiZodes on Ontheloose.tv.
Take it easy.
Peace ya!
Ruben
