Saturday: a couple days of moderate westerlies. SDS & Kreps trails have reopened.

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Gorge Wind Forecast

It’s another fishing-friendly morning out there on the Columbia, but the westerlies will return midday. You’ll be on the river if you know how to take advantage of moderate wind. After today, things get messy for a couple days. A quick series of fronts followed by a trough sets off showers and gusty, unreliable wind for a few days.

Looking closer at today, we see calm wind to start with the 10-13mph exception of easterlies at Rooster. Those will die off quickly. By late morning, you’ll find W 10-13 between Stevenson and Swell. The wind builds to 15-18 this afternoon between Stevenson and The Dalles with 10-13 out east. River flow is 90,100cfs, river temp is 65F, and high temp forecast is 83F.

Looking at Sunday, we see a couple of fronts hanging out offshore and moving this way. The wind starts with gusty 16-19 west of Hood River and east of The Dalles with 8-13ish in between. It appears the wind will bounce around a bit in the morning and fade in the afternoon to 7-10 in the west and 12-15 out east. Rain starts up after sunset. High temp: 75F.

Monday will be showery with light westerlies or light and variable wind. It’s possible you could find westerlies in the teens to low 20’s between Rooster Rock and Viento. Tuesday’s forecast is currently 14-17, but that’s too far out and the setup is too complicated to rely on that. Enjoy the weekend!  

Coast, Jones, Coast

Coast (north/central/south, waves. Wind direction north unless otherwise noted. Swell forecast from NWS.) Saturday: LTW/LTW/S 10, W swell 5′ at 11 seconds. Sunday: S 30-35/S30/S15-25, combined seas 10′ @ 13. Monday: LTS/SW 15-20/S 10-20, W 8′ @ 10 building to W 16 @ 14. Jones Saturday: 15-18. Sunday/Monday: LTV. Sauvie’s Saturday: LTV. Sunday: S 10. Monday: S10 becoming W 15.  

Mt. Hood Weather forecast

On vacation unless some wintry weather happens.  

Hood River Weather Forecast

Clear sky starts the day and ends it. Temps will be in the upper 40’s early and low 80’s later. Light wind early. Moderate westerlies later. No rainbows. Sunday starts partly cloudy and keeps adding various layers of clouds. Temps will be in the low 50’s early and mid 70’s later. Moderate westerlies. No rainbows. Rain falls overnight. Monday looks showery and mostly cloudy. Temps will be in the mid 50’s early and mid 60’s later. Snow level 10,000′ falling to 7000′. Light westerlies or light and variable wind. 99.9% chance of rainbows.

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Cycling

SDS and Kreps lands have reopened as of yesterday. Washington DNR land had already reopened. All other trails are open at this time. Motorized use is still not allowed in areas where it was closed due to fire season. In other news… thanks to last week’s rain, the dirt is nearly perfect in most places. More rain is coming, so get ready for more brown pow!  

Local Events

IFPL 3 restrictions west of Highway 35 went into effect on 7/16. No more motorized use in Post Canyon trails. Mountain View Cycles women’s ride is every Thursday, bottom of Post at 5:30pm. They have an all-genders ride at 6pm on Wednesday, end of the pavement on Post Canyon Road. Their shop road ride leaves at 9am on Saturday for a 2 hour ride. Dirty Fingers has the Post n’ Pint on Thursday evenings at 5:30pm from the shop. They also have the women’s Post n’ Pinot Wednesday evening at 5:30pm from the shop. Oregon E-Bikes has ladies’ rides at 7:30am Sunday and Monday. The Small Boat Group does paddles every Thursday evening at 6pm at the Hatchery.

Other weekly events. Normally on Tuesday night there’s meditation with the Pacific Hermitage Monks at 5:15 (1 hour) and 6:30 (30 minutes followed by a talk) at Yoga Samadhi in White Salmon. In-person meditation is on “pause” due to the recent Covid surge. It will happen on the Pacific Hermitage YouTube page at 6:30. Triathlon practice with the Tri Club is Tuesday at 6pm at West Mayer State Park. Sailboat races happen Wednesday night from the Hood River Marina. There are also lesser races on Friday nights. Cheno’s workout is every Saturday at 10am at the Ferment Lawn in Hood River ($10). Families in the Park starts August 5th at Jackson Park and runs for several weeks on Thursday evening.  

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