snowboarding - The Gorge is my Gym

Good morning!

Here comes the snow… I’m watching the radar image from my desk (well, actually, it’s Brad’s desk, but close enough) here at Meadows. There’s a rainbow of green, blue, red, orange and yellow headed towards the mountain, and that’s a great thing if you like powder skiing (and really, who doesn’t?). Models suggest 1-1.5” of water value by tomorrow morning, meaning we’ll see a solid 12” of new snow between midday today and early tomorrow morning. I’m not promising you light and fluffy powder, but it’s not going to be concrete either. With snow levels around 3500-4000 feet, we’re looking at yummy snow.

If you can’t ride today, clear tomorrow, and if you can’t ride tomorrow, clear this evening. We’ve had a lot of powder days this year where the subsurface was ice, but not this time. Generally, it’s packed powder right now, meaning you won’t be dropping through to a nasty crust. It’s going to be so good….

Monday, during the day, another 2-5” will fall, and Tuesday looks like 1-3” more. Wednesday looks sunny.

Kiters and windsurfers have today for easterlies in the 22-25 range, at least before the rain hits. Next chance for easterlies looks like Wednesday, in the sun, at Stevenson.

Everyone have a great day today, and get a good night’s sleep tonight. Wax up, and pick me up if you see me hitching in the morning!

Temira

Good morning!

I’m going to say it again: stop riding Syncline, and get your friends to stop riding Syncline until it dries out. It’s a muddy mess, criss-crossed with tire trenches from selfish bikers. If you must ride, and 99% of people would rather you didn’t, at least stay on the trails and off the grass to the side. You don’t want to ride in the mud? Then don’t go riding. Making the trail wider so you can avoid squishing and sliding along is not an acceptable way of riding. Respect the trails, and we’ll continue having access. Trash the trails, and you’ll ruin the riding for everyone.

Thank you.

If you’d like to ride, the roads are in good shape right now. I rode Eastside Loop yesterday, and there was very little gravel on the road. Riding felt so good to my legs, and my cobweb-covered bike was happy too.

If you like to play in the snow, I have good news. There’s plenty of snow headed toward Mt. Hood, good news for groomer-weary riders. If the forecasts hold, snow will start falling on Sunday, continuing through much of next week. You can thank me for this: I am headed to Maui on Monday, for three days, so we should have a foot of new every day I’m gone.

If you’d like to windsurf or kite, your best chance will be at the coast over the next few days. A series of disturbances will keep the southerlies blowing, often in the nuclear-force range.

Have a great day today!

Temira