What a Difference a Day Makes

These are phots I've taken the last 2 days to show just how fast the creek & river are rising due to the really warm temps and fast melting snow. The top and 3rd photo are of the bend at the Phelps CK campground showing how high the water was today and how high it was yesterday around the same time .

The 2nd photo is of the creek just in front of Trinity at the auto bridge, showing melting snow and rising levels. The creek is still fairly clear but getting muckier each day. Loosing almost 18" of snow since the weekend on our gauge and seeing the river rise almost 1' since yesterday is making for a very interesting meltout. It's supposed to be cooler tonight with the possibility of some snow overnight at 3000' would be nice but will really suck if it is rain here. Hopefully the temps will cool down and slow the melting process some. The advantage this year is that what snow we did have was much wetter snow and when last measured had almost 43-44% density which is much better than what we had last year.


Now that these logs and snow are under water now or melted I will be using the last photo to show the difference of the rivers depth and flow daily but at the rate we are going it won't even be visible after a couple of more days, that is unless the temps cool down alot over the next few days. I've already had friends cancel coming out yesterday on snowmobiles due to the lack of snow between Alder Ck where hey would have to launch and Chickamin flats which is 8 miles up the road. From Chikamin to Trinity there are a few dirt spots but should still be passible for a while but it is really going to depend on what the weather has in store for us.




If things keep up like the last couple of days we could have some really severe flooding so we are praying for cooler temps even during the day it would be a blessing right now, it has been much worse at this time other years with water flowing everywhere, while we still have 2-4' of snow on the road but just one step too far off the road you sink to your knees.
We found our Paradise, hope you find your too. Peace