Last week the 2008 Gorge Games were announced for July 17-20. The games are base around Hood River and include competitive wind surfing, kayaking, adventure racing, mountain biking, skateboarding, trail running, and riverboarding. This year’s games focuses on being “green” and the word on the street is that plastic water bottles won’t be allowed. Great idea!

For more information about the games, visit www.gorgegames.net. Registration begins March 21st.

For those of you that like beer, Hood River will be hosting the Hood River Hops Fest on Saturday, October 6th. This is an annual celebration in downtown from noon to 9 PM with music, 30 breweries, and 9 wineries.

Click here for the official site

The Pilgrims beat the Indians 49-42 in a championship football match yesterday. The pilgrims dominated the first half, heading into the beer break with a 35-14 lead. The second half was dominated by the Indians, until the last few minutes when the Pilgrmis pulled out the win.

The play of the game was a 30 yard diving catch on fourth down which tied the game 42-42 with just seconds left. This was quickly followed by an interception and touchdown for the Pilgrims to win the game in sudden death overtime.

We arrived in Hood River last week in time to be a part of the biggest flood anyone can remember with the Hood River near it’s banks, with dark brown water, and huge trees floating down. By the afternoon, the Columbia had a huge debris field just below the confluence with the Hood River.

Adam and Hata went to go check out the White Salmon. Where they “got to watch 30 f*$&# foot longs surf Big Brother. [They] also got to watch the upstream dam spill.” We then joined kayak water polo at the pool.