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Gear Review - Flylow Baker Bib

Gear Review - Flylow Baker Bib

Customers always ask what is the best piece of clothing to stay warm in the cold winters and on Upper Peninsula ski hills. Our answer? The Flylow Baker Bibs. From...

Gear Review - Flylow Baker Bib

Customers always ask what is the best piece of clothing to stay warm in the cold winters and on Upper Peninsula ski hills. Our answer? The Flylow Baker Bibs. From...

Custom Voile Ski Straps featuring Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Down Wind Sports

5 Uses for the Voile Straps from our staff

Customers always ask what is the best piece of clothing to stay warm in the cold winters and on Upper Peninsula ski hills. Our answer? The Flylow Baker Bibs. From...

5 Uses for the Voile Straps from our staff

Customers always ask what is the best piece of clothing to stay warm in the cold winters and on Upper Peninsula ski hills. Our answer? The Flylow Baker Bibs. From...

All I Want For Christmas- Stand Up Paddling the Slate Islands

All I Want For Christmas- Stand Up Paddling the...

A Trip report from the summer of 2019 by Down Wind Sports Owner Bill Thompson "What do you want for Christmas?" For a person who doesn't really need anything, it...

All I Want For Christmas- Stand Up Paddling the...

A Trip report from the summer of 2019 by Down Wind Sports Owner Bill Thompson "What do you want for Christmas?" For a person who doesn't really need anything, it...

Bill Thompson trout fishing in Japan

Tenkara On The Youzawa Trout Stream Japan

A Trip report from July 2015 by Down Wind Sports Owner Bill Thompson Tokyo, the biggest city in the world, where visiting is a mind blowing experience! Exciting, unique and...

Tenkara On The Youzawa Trout Stream Japan

A Trip report from July 2015 by Down Wind Sports Owner Bill Thompson Tokyo, the biggest city in the world, where visiting is a mind blowing experience! Exciting, unique and...

Hendrie River Water Cave- Spelunking In Michigan?

Hendrie River Water Cave- Spelunking In Michigan?

What the heck is spelunking? What it sounds like is a bunch of people standing around dropping rocks into a bucket of water. What it really describes is one who...

Hendrie River Water Cave- Spelunking In Michigan?

What the heck is spelunking? What it sounds like is a bunch of people standing around dropping rocks into a bucket of water. What it really describes is one who...

Presque Isle- The Gem Of Marquette

Presque Isle- The Gem Of Marquette

If you have ever traveled to Marquette...my guess is that at some point  you found your way to "the island".  Presque Isle- or the "island" as true yoopers call it,...

Presque Isle- The Gem Of Marquette

If you have ever traveled to Marquette...my guess is that at some point  you found your way to "the island".  Presque Isle- or the "island" as true yoopers call it,...