Spokane Trip Canceled - AGAIN!
Less than an hour after I mentioned in a blog this afternoon that we'd be traveling to Spokane & the Inland Northwest this weekend we canceled the trip. This is the second time now that we've canceled this trip. Last month we canceled the trip because a flight delay threw our carefully orchestrated travel plan into chaos. Today we canceled it because of weather.
Weather? you ask. Yes, weather. In case you haven't seen or read any US news in the past week or so there is a record-shattering heat wave gripping the northwest right now. Temperatures in Portland, Oregon, for example, set an all-time record on Saturday at 108°, broke it again on Sunday at 112°, and smashed both of those Monday with 116°. Example news coverage: KGW8 TV article (29 June 2021). For those outside the US, 116F is almost 47° C.
Portland's not where we're going; it's just a convenient example that's been reported in national news because it's a major city. It's actually worse in Clarkston, WA, where we'd be spending 4 nights. Clarkston reached a whopping 118° F today. Roads are buckling from the heat and utilities are warning rolling blackouts. Although temperatures are supposed to cool down a bit by Friday they're still forecasted to break 100 each day through the weekend.
Are we being wusses cancelling out of hiking because of weather? Let me tell you: we have hiked in 100+ degree heat before. We have, and we know it's really tough. And dangerous. And we'd rather not being trying to travel when things are buckling, breaking, blacking out, and shutting down because of extreme heat.
Will we do this trip some other time? Yes! WE SHALL RETURN ...when it's not scorching hot.
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Weather? you ask. Yes, weather. In case you haven't seen or read any US news in the past week or so there is a record-shattering heat wave gripping the northwest right now. Temperatures in Portland, Oregon, for example, set an all-time record on Saturday at 108°, broke it again on Sunday at 112°, and smashed both of those Monday with 116°. Example news coverage: KGW8 TV article (29 June 2021). For those outside the US, 116F is almost 47° C.
Portland's not where we're going; it's just a convenient example that's been reported in national news because it's a major city. It's actually worse in Clarkston, WA, where we'd be spending 4 nights. Clarkston reached a whopping 118° F today. Roads are buckling from the heat and utilities are warning rolling blackouts. Although temperatures are supposed to cool down a bit by Friday they're still forecasted to break 100 each day through the weekend.
Are we being wusses cancelling out of hiking because of weather? Let me tell you: we have hiked in 100+ degree heat before. We have, and we know it's really tough. And dangerous. And we'd rather not being trying to travel when things are buckling, breaking, blacking out, and shutting down because of extreme heat.
Will we do this trip some other time? Yes! WE SHALL RETURN ...when it's not scorching hot.
[This entry was cross-posted from https://canyonwalker.dreamwidth.org/82051.html. Please comment there using OpenID. That's where most of the action is!]