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| Your favorite beach | Dawn Patrol |
9am- 11:30a |
11:30a- 3pm |
3pm- dusk |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rooster Rock | blue | sky | brown | buns | |
| Steven’s Locks | 0-5 | 10-13 | 21-24 | 21-24 | |
| Hatchery/Wunderbar | 21-24 | 24-27 | 21-24 | 21-24 | |
| Doug’s, Lyle, Rowena | 10-13 | 13-16 | 21-24 | 21-24 | |
| Rufus, etc. | 10-13 | 10-13 | 10-13 | 10-13 | |
| Roosevelt & Arlington | 10-13 | 10-13 | 10-13 | 10-13 | |
Gorge Wind Forecast
It’s Labour Day morning, and it was windy enough at dawn that the Cross Channel swimmers were disappointed by a cancellation of the event. The morning westerlies look to continue all day on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday look like easterly days, and then the westerlies return on Thursday.
Hopefully your labors today will be limited to those on the water. It’s looking like a great day for ALL the watersports except the zero-wind sports. Morning gradients were .11 and .01. Flow is quite low this morning, making for an easy downwinder: 82,500cfs. We’ll have westerlies at 21-24 this morning from Viento to Mosier. A brief mid-morning bump to 24-27 is possible. Afternoon wind looks like 21-24 from Stevenson to Doug’s with 10-13ish (or less) farther east. River temp is 67 degrees.
High pressure builds inland on Tuesday and Wednesday. Accompanying thermal low pressure over the Willy Valley turns the flow offshore. That gives us east wind. Light easterlies Tuesday morning build to 15-20 midday between Rooster Rock and Home Valley. The wind fades back to 5-10 in the afternoon. Wednesday starts with E 20-25 from Rooster Rock to Home Valley with 15-20 near Viento. The wind holds through early afternoon and then drops to E 5-10 after 2pm.
Models agree on 21-24 out of the west on Thursday but disagree on the Friday/Saturday forecast.
BONUS: Jones Monday: 12-15. Tuesday: nope. Wednesday: 10-13. Sauvie’s Monday: 13-16. Tuesday: 17-21. Wednesday: 5-10. Coast (north/central/south). Monday: 15-20/20-25/30+, W swell 4′ at 10 seconds. Tuesday: 20-25/20-25/30+, NW 4′ @ 9. Wednesday: 15-20/5-10/15-20, NW 4′ @ 9.
Random Morning Thoughts
Mt. Hood Mountain Weather Forecast
Labor Day Timberline Mountain Music Festival forecast… Clear. Free air freezing level (FAF) 13,000′ rising to 14,000′. Wind: NW 15-20 dropping to W 10 in the afternoon and SW 5 after midnight. Tuesday: clear. FAF: 14,000′. Wind: SW 5 becoming light and variable and SSW 15 overnight. Wednesday: clear. FAF: 14,000′. Wind: SSW 15 early, SW 20 in the afternoon.
Gorge Weather Forecast
It’s a mostly clear start to the day. Temps will be in the upper 50’s early and upper 70’s later. Moderate west wind. No rainbows. Tuesday looks sunny. Temps will be int eh low 50’s early and low 80’s later. Light east wind. No rainbows. Wednesday looks sunny. Temps will be in the mid 50’s early and upper 80’s in the afternoon. Light east wind. No rainbows. Next chance of rainbows is Saturday.
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Road and Mountain Biking
Trails on private timberland (Hospital Hill, Whoopdee, Underwood, and anything else on Kreps, Stevenson, Weyerhauser, etc.) will remain closed to ALL uses until the end of fire session. Motorized vehicles, chainsaws, campfires, and smoking are banned from public lands in Oregon and Washington.
Group bike rides: Triathlon practice Tuesday, 6pm at West Mayer Park. Wednesday: Post n’ Pinot women’s MTB ride at Dirty Finger, 5:30. Families at Family Man: 6pm Wednesday. Thursday: Mountain View Cycles women’s MTB, 5:30, bottom of Post. Post n’ Pint: race-pace coed ride from Dirty Fingers at 5:30. Free pint of beer after. Friday: Mountain View Cycles MTB ride: 5pm (shop? Bottom of post?). Saturday: Mountain View Cycles road ride: 9am at the shop.
Upcoming Events
This year’s the 75th of the Roy Webster Cross Channel Swim, where hundreds of people jump from the Sternwheeler and swim across the Columbia. Sadly, it was too windy to run the swim this morning. It’s year 7 of the Timberline Mountain Music festival, a free Roots music event starting at 12:30 today. Just a reminder that the show’s free, but you’re not allowed to bring picnic lunches and your dog has to stay at home.
The number of events really starts to slow down this time of year, but we do have two this upcoming weekend: the Aluminum Man triathlon is in The Dalles on Saturday morning, and Yoga Samadhi has a free half-day meditation retreat Saturday afternoon.
Click here for the full events calendar.
Have an awesome day today!
Temira
