In association with the International Mountain Bicycling Association’s annual Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day, Cascade Locks and the Northwest Trail Alliance are hosting a free event that day on the Easy CLIMB Trail System in Cascade Locks from 4-6 p.m. The event will be a great chance for kids and parents to learn next skills together and check out the friendly trail system developed on Port of Cascade Locks property east of town. Although free, registration is required and can be done onsite at 3:30 p.m. that day. Activities will include a group trail ride and scavenger hunt, riding instruction, entertainment, food, games, prizes and more. Overnight camping and a bonfire (weather permitting) is also on the agenda.
Schwandtner scores hole-in-one
On Sept. 27, during the Hood River Valley High School Athletic Hall of Fame Golf Toournament, Andy Schwandtner of Hood River scored a hole-in-one at Indian Creek on the par-three 10th hole. An almost equally good shot happened on hole 16, when his wife, Pam, scored an Eagle chip from 75 yards out. Even with two spectacular shots, Team Karma (with teammates Angela and Michael Schock) did not place in the money in the tournament.
HRV cheer hosts junior clinic Oct. 11
Hood River Valley High School cheerleaders invite all area kindergarten through fifth graders to a junior cheerleading clinic on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the high school football field.
Registration for the event will be the day of, at 9:45 a.m. Current HRV cheerleaders and coaches will run the clinic. Kids will be divied into age groups and will learn a cheer and a short dance, as well as simple cheerleading techniques. The junior cheerleaders will then perform their routines at the high school varsity football game on Oct. 24.
Cost of the clinic is $35; special sweatshirts can also be purhcased for $15. The clinic fee includes lunch, cheerleader awards and goodies, pom poms and entry into the Oct. 24 game.
Indian Creek Golf Course hosts chip and putt contest
Indian Creek Golf Course had a great turnout of kids ages 5-15 last weekend for a fun chip and putt contest. Top finishers for each age group are as follows:
Boys 5-7: 1st Matthew Martin, 2nd Wyatt Bahn; Girls 5-7: 1st Lilly Lawson ; Boys 8-10: 1st Keeler Lawson, 2nd Charlie Green, 3rd Kiernan Chown; Girls 8-10: 1st Sydney Krentz; Boys 11-12: 1st Dylan Santee, 2nd Mason Spellecy, 3rd Jesse Williams ; Boys 13-15: 1st Tyler Vassar, 2nd Niels Ramussen
New backcountry ski film airs at Dog River Oct. 12
Join Powderwhore Productions for their latest backcountry ski film, Some Thing Else, at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 at Dog River Coffee. The film features some of the deepest powder and the steepest spines on the planet, plus a great cast of characters to mark Powderwhore’s tenth anniversary of making backcountry ski films. Entry fee is $10.
IMBA trail building clinic Oct. 18
Hood River Area Trail Stewards invites anyone interested in learning the proper way to build and maintain recreational trails to take part in a free trail building school on Oct. 18, hosted by the International Mountain Bicycling Association. The school will involve three hours of classroom instruction, followed by about four hours in the field doing hands-on trail work and field instruction and an optional group ride the following day. Participants should be at the Hood River Fire Station meeting room at 9 a.m. Oct. 18 for the classroom portion.9
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