Amazing seeing how much dirt/silt can both be moved and deposited by the river. Water is not really clear, but not terribly muddy either. N. Fork is still bumping up Filter and they are running the canal at the mouth full, so gauge will be a tad misleading.

Jeff reported it as being at 2.2 when they floated by. Water was clear and cold. No logs in play from Pineview to BTO, with the river bed apparently looking remarkably clean. Though a variety of wood was up high on the banks and sand/silt from earlier floods this year was scoured out of eddies.

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…