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Incoming Low Pressure

From the National Weather Service Special Weather Statement: …COOLER WEATHER WITH PERIODS OF RAIN EXPECTED THIS WEEK… A LARGE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST EARLY THIS WEEK....

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Spitting Snow, Freezing Rain, and Stream of Consciousness

All morning the weather has gone back and forth between snow flurries and freezing rain. Now it seems to have settled with snow, and brown ground is rapidly turning white. Just like that it’s early...

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The Omega Block or Are You the One?

Sometimes the pieces I read stick with me. A line echos after I’ve turned the page. Months, sometimes years, later I find myself searching for the piece  guided only by a phrase or two that’s been...

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The Truth of the Matter

I ran into a girlfriend I hadn’t seen in a while. We started chatting about jobs, then trips, then winter plans. She’s hoping to move this way. Hoping for a little skiing this winter. Some climbing...

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Snowing on the Pass

It seems like the first semi-real storm of winter is crashing into the Cascades today. I made my second attempt to have my studs mounted this morning. Just before 7 am, I walked into the smells of...

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High Pressure Makes Me Cry

New column for The Source Weekly. This is the first time I’ve ever cursed in a published piece. I usually try to keep it to something I’d want my Grandma to read. I’m not sure what came over me, or the...

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Slipped, Again or Revenge of the Starfish

You don't dry your skins in the shower?! Temperatures fell to single digits, it dropped six inches of blower over night, the wind died, the sun came out, and I once again found myself laid out like a...

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I’ll Call You Back Soon

After a long drought, with only a day or two of respite, it’s finally snowing, but not even just snowing — nuking. An inch an hour. Two inches an hour. And windy. Snowflakes fly like needles piercing...

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Extreme Avalanche Danger in Oregon Cascades

This morning I drove west to east over the pass. There were natural avalanches on every aspect and on nearly every slope greater than 30 degrees. I’ve never seen anything like it. Locally at 2 pm,...

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Salmon Nation: Day ? of 30

“The most miserable fishing weather. Ever. Worse than snow.” – C. Scott The NOAA forecast for the next 36 hours is a little gnarly. Note the winds. This Afternoon Rain, with thunderstorms also...

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