The Roy Webster Columbia River Cross Channel Swim returns on Labor Day in Hood River.  Last year’s event had to be cancelled due to smoky conditions resulting from the Eagle Creek Fire.  Ashley Huckaby-May of the Hood River County Chamber of Commerce said they had expected registration to slow down this year as a result of that cancellation, but that didn’t happen.  The swim is sold out again, and Huckaby-May says participants are coming out from throughout the region and the country.  Participants board the Sternwheeler paddleboat at the Port of Hood River early Monday morning, and are ferried across the river to the Washington shore, where they will jump in and swim back to the Oregon side.