cougarmeat
Paddler
Worse than the rain - which isn't really "worse" just different (the plants like it) - the new normal is bad summer air quality. It's difficult to deal with spotty weeks of blue sky and temps in the low 80's when the air quality during those weeks is in the UnHealthy to Hazardous categories.
Yeah - there's that assumption that if it rains one day, it's only fair that it be dry and sunny the next so you can lay your gear out.
Long, long, long ago, for about six months, I worked on the Alaska Pipe Line in Valdez. It started raining. It continued raining. It stayed raining for seven solid 24-hour days. You'd get up - it was raining. You'd work in the rain. You'd go to sleep - it was raining. And when you woke up the next day, it was still raining and it was the same rain (no breaks) that was falling the day before. You began to believe you lived on a planet where is moisture from the sky was ... forever.
Finally, it stopped. An orange ball appeared. Water vapor started reaching for the heavens. It was warm. I completely understood how a person could start worshiping a "Sun God".
I hope you do get up to the San Juans - there are probably some windows of good weather left. And if your boat and car are under the 7'2" height limit, you are pretty much assured of a reservation by logging on and reserving two days before or even planning on Standby status. Mt Baker, to the east, looks majestic in the morning light.
Yeah - there's that assumption that if it rains one day, it's only fair that it be dry and sunny the next so you can lay your gear out.
Long, long, long ago, for about six months, I worked on the Alaska Pipe Line in Valdez. It started raining. It continued raining. It stayed raining for seven solid 24-hour days. You'd get up - it was raining. You'd work in the rain. You'd go to sleep - it was raining. And when you woke up the next day, it was still raining and it was the same rain (no breaks) that was falling the day before. You began to believe you lived on a planet where is moisture from the sky was ... forever.
Finally, it stopped. An orange ball appeared. Water vapor started reaching for the heavens. It was warm. I completely understood how a person could start worshiping a "Sun God".
I hope you do get up to the San Juans - there are probably some windows of good weather left. And if your boat and car are under the 7'2" height limit, you are pretty much assured of a reservation by logging on and reserving two days before or even planning on Standby status. Mt Baker, to the east, looks majestic in the morning light.
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