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| Your favorite beach | Dawn Patrol |
9am- 11:30a |
11:30a- 3pm |
3pm- dusk |
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| Rooster Rock | wet | buns | umbrellas | funs | |
| Steven’s Locks | 5-10 | 10-13 | G14-17 | G14-17 | |
| Swell-Hood River | G14-17 | G14-17 | G14-17 | G14-17 | |
| Doug’s, Lyle, Rowena | 10-13 | 16-20 | G23-26 | G23-26 | |
| Rufus, etc. | 5-10 | 10-15 | G23-26 | G23-26 | |
| Roosevelt & Arlington | 5-10 | 10-15 | G23-26 | G23-26 | |
Gorge Wind Forecast
For the next several days, the weather continues to alternate between brief ridging and weather systems moving through. This will keep the gusty, inconsistent, and difficult-to-predict westerlies rolling through the Gorge. For Tuesday, early gradients were .06 and .05, and there was a warm front scheduled to clip the PNW. We’ll see early westerlies at 14-17 from Viento to Swell with 5-10 everywhere else. It appears the western Gorge will stay relatively cloudy today. Result: gusty westerlies at 13-16. The Rowena to Arlington stretch stands to benefit somewhat from this setup; expect gusty 23-26 at those launches. River flow is 73,600 cfs and temp is 66 degrees.
High pressure builds in Tuesday night into Wednesday. Models tend to under-predict the wind with this setup. Let’s call it 10-13 from Viento to Swell early with 12-15 (maybe?) from Stevenson to Hood River in the afternoon. Try the coast on Wednesday for stronger wind.
Thursday looks like an active weather sort of day; rain moves into the western Gorge midday and sticks around through the afternoon. Westerlies respond by shifting east. Stevenson to Hood River starts at 10-13 and maybe picks up to gusty 23-16 in the afternoon. Morning westerlies east of Hood River start at 20-23. They’ll pick up to gusty 25-28 from Mosier (maybe) or Rowena to Arlington. As of right now, it appears the eastern Gorge will see 25-29 on Friday, but that’s really too far out to be predicting with this sort of active weather pattern.
COAST, JONES, SAUVIE’S: Coast (north/central/south, wind N unless otherwise specified – swell forecast courtesy of National Weather Service). Tuesday: LTN/10-15/35+, W swell 8′ at 11 seconds. Wednesday: 15-20/25-30/335+, NW 10′ @ 14. Thursday: 15-20/20-25/30-35, NW 8′ @ 11. Jones Tuesday: 7-10/ Wednesday: nope. Thursday: 13-16. Sauvie’s Tuesday: 12-15. Wednesday: 12-15. Thursday: 10-13.
Hood River Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy sky starts the day and stays that way. Temps will be near 60 early and in the low 70’s later. Moderate to strong westerlies. No rainbows. Wednesday looks sunny. Temps will be near 50 early and in the low 70’s later. Light to moderate westerlies. No rainbows. Thursday starts out clear and turns cloudy with a chance of sprinkles mid morning. Temps will be in the mid 50’s early and upper 60’s later. Moderate westerlies. 15% chance of rainbows.
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Road and Mountain Biking
Logging is finished on the Whoopdee trail. The southern 1/3 of the trail is gone, but you are welcome to go up there and ride and check it out. Ronnoc trail is still open and good to go, as is the climb out. Work parties coming soon. In other news… Tack alert for all trails! 130,140, Borderline, and the jump trails in the 150 area are closed for timber harvesting. Upper 8 Track is now closed due to logging. Motorized use is now permitted in Post (thanks, rain!), east side and Middle Mountain. There is a work party on the 140 Trail on Saturday – meet at 9am at Family Man.
All other trails are open. Apparently Boulder Lakes is quite overgrown. If you’re riding Underwood, please do not park at the trailhead as per request by SDS. Continue past the trailhead 0.5 miles or so to the new parking area. The cows are off Hospital Hill, which means your dog can come along.
Upcoming Events
Events today start at 6am with the Kainos Coffee run in The Dalles and Zen meditation at Trinity Natural Medicine in Hood River. There’s an hour-long silent meditation at 5:15 and a 30 minute guided meditation at 6:30 at Yoga Samadhi this evening followed by a talk. That’s taught this week by a senior American meditation teacher. Lots of monks will be there, and so will lots of people. It will be a great night to come check this out! At 5:30, there’s a by-donation women’s track and fitness camp at Columbia High School in White Salmon. HAVEN in The Dalles puts on a free yoga class for teens at 6, and there’s triathlon practice at Mayer Park at 6.
Coming up Saturday, there’s the last swap meet of the season at Luhr Jensen Beach. There’s a work party on the 140 trail – meet at Family Man Staging Area at 9am for that one. The Heights in Hood River is hosting PorchFest and a bike parade Sunday.
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Have an awesome day today!
Temira
