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Pics from W Seattle. Background is Vashon to the west, Olympic Mountains to the north behind Vashon ferry dock.
Spinakers out and plenty of speed on chilly northerly and soft swell. On the way back, the 3rd place trimaran was RIPPING, looked much faster than two boats upwind, especially on the this super fast tack near shore! To get the Charlie Chaplin version of the tack, click big pic for larger size, then tap your right arrow key fast.
3.2 sail, demo North Pacific quad that held it's own despite width and 80L. Two or three of us on the water.
Later that day, we packed up and watched the real talent at The Wall.
The new North Pacifics -- classic gorge thruster for Jen and wavier quad for me. Some pics few taken at Art's shop, one with Art holding Jen's board. Great guy, great work. Other beauties at the beach taken Oct 8, Rowena, prior to first session. Which was 4.2 for me, 3.8 for Jen, and pure butter.
Sigh. Next ride is 6 months away, at least. Getting teary-eyed.
Love this vid. Cameraman Ken's our sailing buddy. I'm the first guy he follows out, red sail and harness, with the little jump ~0:30.
Looks like our 4.4 sail. If I remember correctly, I was demoing an 80L quad fin from Art at North Pacific Surfboards. (This is cryptic windgeek speak for "a good day.") Later in this session I blew a hotshot jibe in big swell right in front of Ken. While I avoided being punctured by his fin, this ended my career as one of Ken's windsports models.
I gotta say -- don't let the helmet, flotation vest, and older pointy board fool you -- Ken's a talented swell rider and jumper. He's jumping ~1:00 minute, and mostly riding swell between minutes 2:00 and 3:00. The video lens doesn't do the swell justice -- it's not monsterous at the White Salmon bridge, but bigger than it looks here.
Dude. So missing summer.
Fantastic time-lapse video of the dam breach on National Geograpic, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111028-condit-dam-removal-video/.
These pics from just below the dam show deposits from the 6' wall of silt as the lake drained. The White Salmon River is chocolate brown all the way to confluence with Columbia. It's going to take some serious spring thaw to wash out the gunk!
Bryan Metcalf-Perez in unedited vid (mute your audio). Loop is cool, but 3 spins on 1 wave is a damn classy stunt!
A few of Scott & Jen's favorite pics of Ty... and Kelly too!
Vienna, 1986 - housemates Ty, Wayne, Scott, & Mike + friends (note "Jesus" beard)
Seattle, 1991 - Scott & Jen's wedding (includes famous "helmet on bass-ackwards all over the city" pic)
Minneapolis, 1996 - Wayne & Amy's wedding
Santa Monica, 2000 - Ty & Scott, margaritas & steaks in the back yard
Chicago, 2004 - Ty, Jen, & Scott on "Grip It and Rip It" tour
Decatur, 2007 - Kelly & Ty golfing & wakeboarding
One might ride the West Seattle Water Taxi to save money on parking, to skip
traffic, to get to some fresh air. All valid reasons, if you need reasons.
“There is comparatively little research that has been done on whales," says biologist who performed necropsy on Arroyo whale. Despite having the largest amount of trash found in a Puget Sound whale stomach, that likely didn't kill him. Results of pathology, microbiology, biotoxin, and contaminant reports still pending.
Two weeks ago, I’m spending the afternoon at Safeco Field with Ryan, my 5 year old godson. In the bottom of the 9th, the offensively-challenged Seattle Mariners – losers of five in a row – rally from two down to tie the game. Cheers swell from the remaining fans as a pinch hitter comes to the plate.
"Why is everybody standing?" asks Ryan.
"Because that's Ken Griffey Junior, the best Mariner player ever," I explain, holding him up on his folding seat to see. Griffey strokes a ball down the right field line, the crowd explodes, and teammates rush from the dugout to mob a beaming Griffey.
Ryan turns to me: "Did we win?"
In the 1990’s, we Seattleites had the privilege of watching Junior emerge as the best player in the game. By now, the game has moved past him. And Griffey’s game-winning RBI two weeks ago turns out to be the last hit of his career.
"Yes we did," I tell Ryan. “We won.”
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2010_05_20_tormlb_seamlb_1&mode=wrap
