high winds in Palm Spring

Unfortunately, the Palm Springs Thursday forecast is now:

Areas of blowing sand and blowing dust...Winds northwest 25 to 35 mph
with gusts to 50 mph. Visibility one quarter mile or less at times in
the evening.

That's sounding out of my comfort level. It's looking like a Friday
morning departure.

But good advice so far. Especially about the alternate route around
Big Bear.

Marc, regarding Tehachapi pass, how does that compare to Tejon pass?
My planned route was to follow 5 to Gorman and then turn to Palmdale.

Best.

Blair

Blair wrote:

weather turned to crap

Yeah, it's 55G65 here at Mojave now, and cold. Pretty miserable. 40
kts in Tehachapi with snow :-).

Marc, regarding Tehachapi pass, how does that compare to Tejon pass?
My planned route was to follow 5 to Gorman and then turn to Palmdale.

Tejon pass is lower and less windy (usually), as is western Antelope
Valley, but going over BFL/TSP/MHV/PMD rather than Gorman/PMD keeps
you closer to airports - there's nothing in the western Antelope
Valley. 8500 ft. over Tehachapi is higher than anything surrounding
you, and keeps you high enough to stay out of the worse turbulence
down lower - you're 3K ft. over the windmill ridge.

Plus, Tehachapi is prettier :-).

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Marc J. Zeitlin