Archives for September 2013

Road still closed due to flooding and rock/mud slides. Riv currently flowing at 4.8 and black with tons of logs.

Oh, and according to Ranger Rob, the Riv jumped to between 4 and 4.5 on Friday during that storm!! Crazy

Sorry, been too busy to post pics, but we have a new slide in the RIV. So, Friday’s storm blew out most of the logs in 3-Way. Good news and Bad. The river is once again boatable through 3-Way, BUT… all those logs are now strewn downstream and will most likely be an issue next spring.

In the same storm, Rattlesnake Gulch (a.k.a. Palisades, the Palace, Falic Canyon) blew out. This has dumped a ton of detritus and other debris in the rapid known as Jinsu Corner (a.k.a. the bend just above Tunnel Rapid). What once was an island at that bend, is now a peninsula, with the former other channel six feet above the river surface. It has narrowed the channel to approx 4 feet wide, with a rock (formerly securely on shore river right) in the dead center of the narrow channel.

I anticipate spring run-off will open that up some, but not sure how much. Stay tuned for the ever changing saga of Post High Park Fire Earth Movement…

Reportedly the water’s come down a tad to ~0.8 from 1.0 Monday.

You may have heard, we had a significant rain storm over the High Park Burn Area yesterday. It washed a significant amount of water, mud, logs and other debris into the Riv out of the Stove Prairie area.

This caused a spike in flows that easily topped 3.0 on the Rock (anecdotal from markers in my yard and on Smith Bridge). It also swept the logs out of 3-Way (3 Rock) Rapid. I have not put eyes on this yet, but I have been informed by a trusted source that all but one log have been swept downstream and the Rapid is now run-able. I will head up and take pics later.

What this does mean is… there are more than a dozen sizable logs downstream from 3 Way!! I have two of them atop boulders in my back yard alone!! So, late season Boaters- beware of new strainers and bridges.

Oh yeah, it also washed out the last cattle guard on Stove Prairie Rd (1/4 mile south of 14), which is now impassable until possibly as late as Monday. Will broadcast pics of 3-Way later today.