The Gorge is my Gym

This week’s forecast is brought to you by Crossfit Hood River and their upcoming standup paddle series taught by the SUP fitness queen, Nikki Gregg. Now, you’re probably wondering why Crossfit (a gym, kinda) is sponsoring a report related to a website called ‘The Gorge is my gym’. Well, Crossfit will kick your a** into shape faster than anything else (you basically have a personal coach), leaving you more ready to tackle Mother Nature’s gym. Crossfit Hood River Sport Clinics: SUP series will get you SUP’ers into great shape too. The clinic runs 7/18,7/25,8/8,8/15 and is $155 for the series. You can sign up by calling 541-490-0939. And yes, we’re giving something away on the email list, but we’re not sure what yet. Stay tuned…

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Today’s the beginning of the qualifying rounds for this weekend’s RoShamThrowDown kiteboarding contest at the Marina, and as usual when there’s a windsport contest, the wind’s not cooperating this morning. We’ll see 10-15 near Hood River early, picking up this afternoon to the 16-19 range from Hood River east to Maryhill. Keep an eye out for thunderstorms this afternoon, because they may ruin the wind quality.

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Tomorrow brings a similar setup with low pressure off the coast limiting wind speed. The wind will be light, maybe nothing at all early, picking up to 17-20 in the afternoon from Hood River to The Dalles.

Friday looks very light, with wind in the 5-10 range in the morning and 10-15 range in the afternoon.

I’d like to point out that this is the weather system all wind Johnnies dread. We have one upper level low off the coast now, and that will be followed by another. This is, other than just-plain-hot, the worst setup for wind in the Gorge.

At least it’s cool out, so the road biking is good right now.

Tonight is hump night, and that means it’s Post and Pinot night, with a super crew of super enthusiastic gals ready to welcome you and your bike and your mountain biking self to Dirty Fingers. All gals are welcome, and the ride leaves the shop at 5:30, followed by wine from Naked Winery.

If the estro-fest frightens you, head to Dirty Fingers tomorrow for the co-ed hammerfest manly ride, where topics of conversation include beer, bikes and well, other stuff that starts with the letter b.

Coming up this weekend, it’s the Ro-Sham Throwdown kiteboarding contest at the Hood River Marina. Mark out your patch of sand now with a big beach blanket and shade umbrella and make plans to check it out.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

p.s. If you find this report useful, entertaining, or just want to recognize all the hard work that goes into it, please take the time to make a donation by clicking on the sad-looking link below. For a suggested donation of $10, I’ll add you to the email version of this list ‘til June 2012, putting you in the running for cool prizes donated by the weekly sponsors.

This week’s forecast is brought to you by Crossfit Hood River and their upcoming standup paddle series taught by the SUP fitness queen, Nikki Gregg. Now, you’re probably wondering why Crossfit (a gym, kinda) is sponsoring a report related to a website called ‘The Gorge is my gym’. Well, Crossfit will kick your a** into shape faster than anything else (you basically have a personal coach), leaving you more ready to tackle Mother Nature’s gym. Crossfit Hood River Sport Clinics: SUP series will get you SUP’ers into great shape too. The clinic runs 7/18,7/25,8/8,8/15 and is $155 for the series. You can sign up by calling 541-490-0939. And yes, we’re giving something away on the email list, but we’re not sure what yet. Stay tuned…

It’s a cloudy start today as low pressure sits off the coast. That’s really not what we want for wind, but the thermals will save the day today. We’ll have 10-15 early near Hood River, building to gusty 16-19 by midday, and filling in to 22-25 east of Mosier late in the day.

Coming up tomorrow that upper low starts to move onshore. We’ll see 10-15 early in the morning in the western Gorge, picking up to gusty 16-19 in the afternoon. East of Mosier, we’ll have 22-24 in the afternoon.

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Thursday starts off very light with another low off the coast. As it moves onshore in the afternoon, the wind will pick up to 22-25 from Hood River out to Arlington in the afternoon with less wind at Stevenson.

Tomorrow brings day one of the Ro-Sham-Throwdown. Qualifying rounds go all day Wednesday and Thursday at the Marina with a party at the British Pub on Thursday night to announce the qualifiers. Head to the Marina Friday and Saturday to watch the actual competition. For more information just search out the event on Facebook.

Also tomorrow there’s the Post and Pinot mountain bike ride for all women, sponsored by Naked Winery, and leaving Dirty Fingers at 5:30. The co-ed, original versioin of this ride leaves Dirty Fingers at 5:30 on Thursday. And speaking of bike riding, temps are going to be about 10 degrees below normal this week, so break out the road ride and head to Vista Ridge or Lost Lake, where the rhodies are in full bloom!

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

p.s. If you find this report useful, entertaining, or just want to recognize all the hard work that goes into it, please take the time to make a donation by clicking on the sad-looking link below. For a suggested donation of $10, I’ll add you to the email version of this list ‘til June 2012, putting you in the running for cool prizes donated by the weekly sponsors.