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Good morning,

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The wind forecast is a bit tricky today, with a low pressure system in Idaho kicking clouds and possibly some thunderstorms back toward the Gorge. The models have never handled this setup well, and even the newest, latest, greatest, bestest model from the UW predicts north wind at 28-32 today. You can play along as forecaster today and know that’s not going to happen!

My best guess today is 15-18 in the western Gorge with 21-24 in the eastern Gorge with similar wind strength tomorrow. But then again, I could be totally wrong, and it could blow really hard, as there’s strong high pressure off the coast and a deep low pressure system in Idaho. That’s quite a synoptic-scale gradient, but it’s just not showing up through the Gorge. Tomorrow looks like a carbon copy of today, so same thing.

Then on Sunday, we’ll see steadier west wind return as the weather pattern becomes more normal. Coming up tomorrow for you windsurfers and kiters, there’s a joint work party at Rowena from 9am-1pm. CGKA and CGWA have adopted Rowena park through Oregon’s Adopt-a-park program, and they need your help. Be there, and help make the park a better place.

I totally forgot about boating safety week yesterday – it was wind and waves day, but living here, you know all about that. Today is emergency locator beacon day, but boat people have some fancy name for those devices. Anyway NOAA recommends you carry one while you’re out on the water. I recommend you carry one while in Post Canyon so HRFD can find you if you crash.

For you mountain bikers, tonight is a meet and greet happy hour with the International Mountain Biking Association’s trail care crew. Join them from 7pm on at Dirty Fingers. Or just go to the big DF at happy hour and hang out, because what’s better than bikes and cheap beer? Coming up tomorrow, IMBA teaches a free trail building school. If you’re interested, show up at the Mt. Hood Town Hall at 9am for the classroom portion. That’s followed by real trail building at the bottom of Oakridge Trail from 1 to 4.

For today’s trail conditions, Mother Nature brings you a muddy mess in Post Canyon. Let the wind blow across the dirt to dry it out this morning, and it should be a lot better by afternoon.

Have an awesome day today!

Temira

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Good morning,

It’s time for the summer sponsorships and the weekly (kinda weekly) giveaways on the email forecast. Your sponsor this week: Why choose Dirty Fingers Bike Repair and bar? Let’s start off with the convenient location on 13th and State with lots of FREE parking. That’s right: no meters. Talented bike mechanics. Great brands: Kona, Transition, Ellsworth, Moots, Cervelo.Bikes, schmikes. Dirty Fingers has beer. Yes, it’s the only combo beer-and-bike bar in the world(?). Pints are $4, or $3 if you’re at Happy Hour from 5pm-6pm. Dirty Fingers.Years and years in the Gorge. Grand opening party Saturday night with food, music, beer and a watt bike competition. We’re giving away a free Full Monte bike tune. 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!

Wow. That was one pretty sunrise this morning! Now, I know you are all curious about new snow in the mountains. Meadows had 4” of new yesterday, and should see another 3-4” today. Down here at sea level, that means we’ll see increasing rain showers after 8am, continuing through 5pm, with a chance of thundershowers and the snow level around 4000′ (which means my plan of riding Oakridge-Surveyor’s-Dog River is out).

For wind, we’ll start off with 10-15, picking up to 23-26 from Stevenson to the Dalles this afternoon with more thunderstorms and unpredictable weather further east. Coming up tomorrow, we’ll see west wind in the low twenties in the afternoon, possibly upper twenties, possibly even more, but it’s going to be gusty and there’s a very good chance of thunderstorms east of Hood River, so that’s going to affect wind strength. Coming up Saturday, more west wind, and then Sunday afternoon, more west wind. You wind people want to mark your calendar for Saturday, for a CGWA and a CGKA work party at Rowena. That’s from 9am-1pm.

On an interesting weather note, the models are having a very hard time resolving the wind strength over the next few days. A huge low over Idaho is causing the difficulty, but should cause interesting weather, with surface wind coming from the west and high clouds moving in from the east.

Anyway, blah blah blah, if you’re interesting in learning how to build sustainable trails for hiking and biking, come to IMBA’s free trail-building school on Saturday. It’s at the Mt. Hood Towl Hall at 9am on Saturday, and then the crew moves to the bottom of the Oakridge trail from 1-4 for hands-on trailbuilding. It’s free, it’s taught by professionals, and it’s rad.

In the not-here, but still really cool news, Oregon’s coolest road bike ride, highway 242 near Sisters, is open for bicycle traffic, but not for motorized traffic, so if you get a chance, go ride it! I haven’t done it yet, but everyone who has swears it’s awesome.

And finally, today is Hood River Tum-a-Lum’s 100th birthday party, so swing by for lunch and wish them a happy birthday, and if you can’t make it today, there’s a repeat party on Saturday.

One last thing: last night I put together stoplight-style trail updates for all local trails and for Post Canyon. Hope that helps y’all 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 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.