skiing - The Gorge is my Gym

There’s not much going on out in the snow or wind world today, or for the next few days. Our best chance for wind will be today, as high pressure builds at the coast. I think 19-22 is reasonable through the central and near-east Gorge this afternoon, with the possibility for clearing skies in the afternoon, along with a slight chance of 23-26 (unlikely).

High pressure builds for the next couple of days, shutting down rain and snow, and likely plunging the Gorge into an inversion until Tuesday. It sounds like the mountain bike trails are in decent shape right now, so pull that bike out of storage for a round of late fall mountain biking.

In the long-term, it looks like we’ll get some strong easterlies towards the end of the week.

What does this mean in the mountains? It means that whatever snow we get today and tomorrow is going to be it for the next week or so, dang it. Somebody start making sacrifices to the snow gods, please.

Temira

Glaciers, skis and mixed precipitation. 11/24

Good morning!

There’s just about zero going on in the wind world for the next two days, so we’ll skip that.

Up in the mountains today, it’s sprinkling. That’s not my ideal weather situation, but maybe it’s yours. As of now, NOAA is calling for sunshine and spring skiing tomorrow, so if you have the day off work or school, that’s when you want to be on the slopes. Thursday starts out a dry, but by afternoon, snow starts on the hill, and continues through the weekend. It doesn’t look like tons of powder, but it does look like a few inches here and there.

There is a cool lecture tonight about Mt. Hood glaciers. Apparently it’s at the Extension office at 7pm. 386-3343 for more information.

Now, I have another missing gear announcement from my friend John:

“Lost, one pair of hand made skis. Ever dream of making your own skis? Well I do and I made my own. They rip or at least did. I was at pocket creek pushed low by the winds sunday. Upon returning to the parking lot I got involved helping a couple nice people without chains get turned around. In the excitement I got out of sequence and left my skis. After a second drive up the hill and much digging I came to the conclusion that some one picked them up and is trying to figure out who owns these easily recognizable skis. Hopefully this message will bring my skis home. I call them the raven arks…”

Thanks for your help finding these skis. And just so you know, in John’s shop class, he has kids make skis as a project. Now, that’s my kind of shop project. We just made paperweights and wooden eggs.

Have a great day!

Temira
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