Thursday: what a beautiful day!

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Gorge Wind Forecast

Not much wind is forecast for the next few days as a powerful fall system drapes itself over the NW. For Thursday, expect a round of easterlies that will probably be just strong enough for windsports. Not much happens early in the morning. By 10am or 11am, the wind should pick up to 15-20 between Rooster and Viento. It drops to 10-15 in the afternoon in that stretch of river. To the east, the wind will be nearly calm, but we should see E 0-5mph in the afternoon. River flow is 71,400cfs, river temp is 68F, and high temp forecast is 71F.

Friday starts calm and cloudy. As this beast of a cold front approaches from the northwest in the afternoon, the wind picks up. Don’t expect high quality wind; you’ll find very gusty 14-18 from Stevenson to Arlington after 2pm or so. High temp: 73F. Saturday starts with pouring rain and transitions to showers that extend far to the east. Westerlies will be in the gusty 10-13 or less range all day, all through the Gorge. Sunday starts light westerly. It may pick up to gusty 19-23 in the eastern gorge, but thunder is also likely as are random downpours. That’s it for the weekend. I’ll probably take a day off somewhere in there since there’s not much wind to discuss!  

Coast, Jones, Coast

Coast (north/central/south, waves. Wind direction north unless otherwise noted. Swell forecast from NWS.) Thursday: 15-20/15-20/30-35, NW swell 6′ at 10 seconds. Friday: S30-35/S25-30/S10-15, combined seas 9′ at 8 seconds. Saturday: S10-15/S10-15/S15-20, W 8′ @ 9. Jones Thursday: LTW. Friday: calm. Saturday: LTW. Sauvie’s Thursday: 12-15. Friday: 8-11. Saturday: S15-20+.  

Mt. Hood Weather forecast

On vacation unless some wintry weather happens.  

Hood River Weather Forecast

Clear weather sticks around all day. Temps will be in the low 40’s early and low 70’s later. Light easterlies. No rainbows. Friday starts cloudy and stays that way. It also looks increasingly muggy. Rain starts after midnight. Temps will be near 50 early and in the low 70’s later. Calm wind to start. Gusty moderate westerlies late in the day. No rainbows. Saturday starts with very heavy rain and transitions to showers. Temps will be in the mid 50’s early and mid 60’s later. Chance of thunder in the afternoon. Light westerlies. 99.99% chance of rainbows. Sunday also looks showery with thunder and rainbows.

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Cycling

Dirt Surfer is temporarily closed while a bridge is replaced. It should reopen by the beginning of next week. With all this rain coming up, people are naturally wondering when trails will reopen. It’s usually not the first rain that does it – fire season needs to be over, not just dampened. Wait for clear direction from landowners before you return to their trails.

SDS (Whoopdee, Underwood), BLC, HFM, DGS, and Kreps Land (Hospital Hill) are now closed until the end of fire season. It is also vital that people respect this closure to maintain positive relationships between the landowners and trail users. DNR land in Eastern Washington (Buck Creek / Nestor Peak) is all closed to recreation due to fire danger. Columbia Hills is now closed to fire danger.

Open trails: Post, Falls Creek, Lewis River, Sandy Ridge, Gorge 400, Plains of Abraham / Ape Canyon. 44 Road: Eightmile, Fifteenmile, Bottle Prairie, Dog River, Superconnector, Cedar, Knebal, Cooks Meadows, 450 to the top, Gunsight, Underhill. Siouxon has reopened, but it is burned and heartbreaking according to trip reports.  

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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