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Hood River
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Humidity: 29%
Visibility: 10mi
Wind: WNW at 3mph
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Hood
River Kiteboarding
On
any typical summer day, you can snowboard all morning long on Mt. Hood and be
back in Hood River by 3 p.m. to kiteboard just as the strong westerly winds begin
to really blow up the Columbia River. |
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Hood
River Skateboarding
Dreamland
Skateboard Parks have turned Oregon into a skateboarding mecca with their innovative
use of cement to sculpt fluid skate parks. | |
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 Hood
River,
Oregon
History:
On October 29, 1792, WR Broughton and his men of the Vancouver
Expedition discovered and named Mt. Hood, in honor of Lord Hood of British Admiralty.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition paved the way and named the glacial stream now
known as the Hood River. Followed by Lewis and Clark were trappers, fur traders,
and pioneer settlers.
The first school was built in 1863. In 1867 a
road from The Dalles to Hood River was completed. By 1880 there were seventeen
families living in the valley. In 1884, the Oregon Short Line was completed and
connected to the Union Pacific, bringing rail transportation in. In 1889, George
Prathor printed the first newspaper and shortly after, in 1900, Leslie Butler
founded the first bank.
Also at the turn of the century, fruit production
had become the major agricultural enterprise. During the years of 1890 to 1920,
Hood River was world famous for its apples.
Today:
Hood
River County is now responsible for the leading production of Anjou Pears in the
world. Fruits and timber products are still the major sources of revenue, although
industrial opportunities are growing, and the future years will bring even more
new development.
Population:
Click here to see population numbers
from the latest census for Hood River and other Oregon cities.
Average Temperature:
January- 33.0, July- 67.0
Geological
Information:
Hood River is located within an area of an important rock
formation known as Columbia Lava. This formation is a vast sheet covering nearly
250,000 square miles and varying in thickness from 300 to 4,000 feet.
This mass was not formed in one single eruption but rather by a series of several
eruptions between Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams, with a short time lapse intervening.
The line of separation between the flows is commonly marked by sand, clay or gravel.
A large part of these lavas cooled slowly and whenever vertical sections of the
rock are visible a columnar structure is usually present.
The columnar
cliffs of the Columbia River Gorge and along the course of the Hood River often
reach 500 feet or more in height. The broad features of the valley are structural.
Since the initial formation, the valley has been modified in detail by erosion,
both by running water and glaciers. The effects of the glaciers, however, are
mainly deposition, while erosion has done very little beyond cutting the narrow
valley in which the river flows. | |
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