Well
, was all slated to head out for my postponed tour (original tour in June was moved to end of August due to an epic NW heat wave) on this Saturday but it looks like current wildland fire situation in Washington is going to be very difficult to have a safe tour. As you may recall I was heading east over the mountains and then dropping through the Yakima valley and over the Simcoe mountains to the Columbia River and then to Hood River and then a three day circumnavigate of Mt Hood and then back to Hood River (~400 miles total). Basically the center of the state is rimmed with fires in our state and Oregon and Idaho.
And where there is fire there is smoke.
So at this point, while not a definite NO GO yet, I will need to make the GO, NO-GO decision by Thursday to cancel my lodging reservations.
If I don't go, I will certainly be disappointed. This would be two attempts this summer derailed by environmental issues. First it was the June record setting high temps and now the record setting fires.
