I’m kicking myself for forgetting to mention this one a couple of days ago. It’s important! It’s Hood River bike to work week. The city of HR challenges you to do four errands on your bicycle this week. That’s biking to work or anything else. Keep track, becauset here’s a party on Friday at the 2nd and State waterfall with a raffle and donuts (donuts so do not go with biking to work) and free coffee (hell yeah!) if you participate. So, get your bike out of the garage and start doing some errands! No bike to work, no free coffee. Bad biker, no donuts.
While we’re talking biking, let’s talk mountain biking. The trails are wet. If you want to ride on the dirt, head to Syncline. Otherwise, let the trails rest for a few days. By the weekend, they’re going to be in fantastic shape! I'm guessing the Post and Pint will be a no-go again this week, but there's always plenty of beer-drinking on Thursday night at Dirty Fingers Bike Repair. Best time to start if there's no Post? 4pm... Happy hour at 10 Speed coffee and Beer shop!
Now, on to the wind forecast. You windsurfers and kiters, you need to get out and windsurf and kite. I was at Arlington yesterday, and it was 3.0 with huge swell. There were only a few people out, and that’s not okay. It’s time to get on the water. Except… all we have today is the weak remnants of yesterday’s wind, and that won’t last long.
Very light wind is the call today, as an upper level low rotates off the coast. This system will cross the Gorge on Thursday, giving us another round of strong winds in the afternoon. I’m saying 28-32 out east on Thursday, late in the day, with weaker, gustier, rainier wind in the central Gorge. At this point, Friday looks sunny and warm, but not windy. I'm guessing the weekend will be warm as well, with possible easterlies. But... that's just a guess at this point.
Whatever you do today, have an awesome day!