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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 | LTE | LTE | LTV | LTV | |
| Swell-Hood River | LTE | LTE | LTV | LTV | |
| Doug’s, Lyle, Rowena | LTE | LTE | LTV | LTV | |
| Rufus, etc. | LTE | LTE | LTV | LTV | |
| Roosevelt & Arlington | LTW | LTW | G18-22? | G18-22? | |
Gorge Wind Forecast
It’s Tuesday, and another weather system sweeps through the region today. It appears to be Autumn, which means the wind will behave like it’s fall – gusty, inconsistent, and difficult to predict. So… here we go with the Tuesday-Wednesday forecast.
For Tuesday, calm morning wind stays that way, at least in the west. Rain moves in mid-morning in the form of a cold front. It’s going to be a battle between the offshore low pressure and the power of the approaching weather system. If we’re lucky, westerlies will pick up to gusty 18-22 east of Biggs mid to late afternoon. River flow is 107kcfs and temp is 68 degrees.
Wednesday looks showery all day. Offshore high pressure starts to build in the afternoon, but probably not early enough to have a significant impact on the wind. It’ll be light and variable in the morning. If every thing plays out just right, the wind will pick up to gusty 10-13 in the afternoon from Stevenson to Biggs.
Thursday’s a better setup, although weak disturbances moving through will knock down the wind quality just a bit. Morning westerlies looks like 10-13 from Viento to Moiser. Afternoon wind picks up to 24-27 from Stevenson to The Dalles. As of right now, Friday looks like 23-26 from Moiser eastward.
COAST, JONES, SAUVIE’S: Coast (north/central/south, wind N unless otherwise specified – swell forecast courtesy of National Weather Service). Tuesday: SW15-20/SW15-20/S20-25, seas 11′ at 10 seconds. Wednesday: W5-10/W5-10/LTW, W 9′ @ 10. Thursday: W5-10-/LTW/N20-25+, NW 5′ @ 10. Jones Tuesday/Wednesday: nope. Thursday: 8-11. Sauvie’s Tuesday: S 20-30. Wednesday: nope. Thursday: 9-12 late.
Hood River Weather Forecast
Cloudy sky this morning gives way to rain mid-morning and showers in the afternoon. Temps will be in the low 50’s early and near 60 later. Light wind. 8% chance of rainbows. Wednesday looks showery and mostly cloudy all day. Temps will be in the low 50’s early and mid 60’s later. Light west wind. 99% chance of rainbows. Thursday looks mostly cloudy in the morning and sunny in the afternoon. Temps will be near 50 early and in the mid 60’s later. Moderate to strong west wind. 5% chance of rainbows.
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Road and Mountain Biking
Brown pow is HERE! 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!), and east side and Middle Mountain will reopen on Wednesday.
All other trails are open. Apparently Boulder Lakes is quite overgrown. Whoopdee is closed for logging, but Ronnoc trail and the climb out are open. Red Hill Road is supposedly closed for logging. Ride at your own risk. 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
It’s Tuesday: at 6am on Tuesday’s, you can do the Kaino’s coffee run in The Dalles for a free cup of coffee, or you can do Zen meditation at Trinity Natural Medicine in Hood River. At 5:15 tonight, there’s a silent hour of meditation at Yoga Samadhi, and there’s guided meditation at 6:30. Columbia High School hosts a by-donation women’s track and fitness camp at 5:30, triathlon practice is at Mayer Park at 6, there’s free youth yoga at HAVEN in The Dalles at 6.
Other events this week: the Rebuild-it Center has a volunteer cleanup day from 10-4 on Wednesday. Hood River Saddle Club has their spaghetti feed fundraiser Friday evening. There’s a Solomon shoe demo with Shortt Supply at Rowena Crest Saturday morning, a Mt. Hood Cleanup all day Saturday (meet at Summit Ski Area), and the equinox celebration at Atlan Center in Husum all day. The Hood River Valley XC team has a fundraiser run at Kickstand Coffee at 8am on Sunday. The Pacific Hermitage Pah Bah is Saturday (free meditation retreat 1-5) and Sunday (talks and giant potluck in the morning) at the White Salmon Grange.
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Have an awesome day today!
Temira
