Visit Hood River says it intends to hold the Roy Webster Columbia River Cross Channel Swim on Labor Day this year in Cascade Locks.  The event was not held last year, with event organizers citing dwindling registration numbers, logistical challenges, and the unpredictability of winds and wildfire smoke during the late summer.  The swim was moved to Cascade Locks from Hood River in 2019, and it has only been held twice in that time, in 2019 and 2022, with the pandemic stopping the swim in 2020 and 2021.  Swimmers will board the Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler at the Cascade Locks paddleboard dock and will be ferried to the Washington side of the Columbia River to jump in and swim the 1.1 miles back to the Oregon shore.  The swim dates back to the 1940s.