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Good morning,

It’s time for you to learn to kiteboard. Ok, maybe you already kiteboard, but now it’s time for your friends to kiteboard. If you’re going to do it, do it with the best: Cascade Kiteboarding. All on-water lessons are one-on-one classes, the instructors use radio helmets rather than hollering over the wind, and top-of-the-line gear makes it easy and safe for you to learn. Radio helmets + one-on-one instruction + jet skis = fast progression and sooner kiteboarding radness for you!
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This is a much better weather setup for wind through the Gorge. We have high pressure building off the coast, low pressure in the desert, and nice cold marine air and clouds in the western Gorge. The marine incursion will shift the strongest wind east of Hood River today. So, we’ll have 15-19 in the western Gorge under the low clouds. East of Mosier, 21-24 this morning builds to 28-32 this afternoon from Rowena to Arlington. One small hiccup could be an approaching frontal system. If it gets too close, we’ll see strong wind at Stevenson (even with the clouds) and at Arlington, with gusty, lighter conditions everywhere else.

Memorial day starts off with 5-15 in the western Gorge with 15-20 east of The Dalles. By midday, we’ll have 17-21 from Hood River eastward, picking up to 23-26 in the afternoon from Rowena eastward.

Tuesday morning starts off with mid-twenties ahead of an approaching front, but the wind setup breaks down midday as the front enters the forecast area.

Looking ahead to next week, the Girls Who Love Dirt have a girls-only trail work party on Mitchell Ridge on Tuesday morning. Meet at Seven Streams Staging Area at 9am if you want to help. Also next week, it’s the first week of Family Nights at Family Man, family-friendly mountain bike at 5:30, every Wednesday at Family Man in Post Canyon. And, assuming no rain, this really will be the first week of the Dirty Fingers Post and Pint. Ride your bike. Earn a pint.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

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Good morning,

It’s time for you to learn to kiteboard. Ok, maybe you already kiteboard, but now it’s time for your friends to kiteboard. If you’re going to do it, do it with the best: Cascade Kiteboarding. All on-water lessons are one-on-one classes, the instructors use radio helmets rather than hollering over the wind, and top-of-the-line gear makes it easy and safe for you to learn. Radio helmets + one-on-one instruction + jet skis = fast progression and sooner kiteboarding radness for you!
Support the report with a paypal donation of $10 or more, then follow the directions in the report if you’d like a chance to win!

In wind news today, it’s a lot like yesterday, with that big old low pressure system in Idaho/Nevada messing with the weather picture. The models were right yesterday and I was wrong – there was 20-30mph north wind on the river out east.

Anyway, today in the Central Gorge, we’ll have 10-15 in the morning, picking up a little bit to 14-17 this afternoon. Out in the desert: more weird north wind. The low exits stage right tomorrow, so we’ll see a return to west wind. However, a front coming through during the day is going to diminish wind quality. You can expect 23-26 from Hood River to Maryhill in the morning, picking up at Stevenson and Arlington to 26-30 in the afternoon. Expect other locals to back off and get gusty. Memorial Day starts off light with westerlies rising to the mid-twenties in the afternoon.

For you kiters, Windance hosts an Ocean Rodeo demo at the Event Site starting at 11am today, but before you go there, make sure you help out with CGKA’s work party at Rowena starting at 9am. There’s a customer appreciation event of sorts at Windance this afternoon, followed by a kite movie at the Pint Shack tonight.

In trails news, today is IMBA’s free trail building school at the Mt. Hood Town Hall. If you’re a biker or horseman or a dirt biker who’s interested in building trails that will last, come to this all-day class. You’ll learn from the best, for free, and by the end the day, you’ll have just enough information to be dangerous to your own backyard.

The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic crew brings you today’s road update: There are two 100 yard long patches of deep snow on Vista Ridge and Red Hill, so it’s not open, but it’s close, and if you are rad enough, you could probably climb through the snow, or if you’re even radder, you could ride through it. Lake Branch is snowy about a mile from the top. Remember, the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic always needs volunteers…

Finally, make sure you swing by Tum-a-lum today for their 100th birthday celebration for weekend folks.

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 link below. For a suggested donation of $10, I’ll add you to the email version of this list for a year, putting you in the running for cool prizes donated by the weekly sponsors during the summer season (and the winter if I get off my bum and get some!). If you don’t PayPal, you can send a donation to PO Box 841 in Hood River, 97031.