Late April Snow Showers

This morning while the dogs and I were out hiking and checking out the melt out progress along the river and creek the sun was out shining bright. This afternoon around 3:30 we started getting snow coming off the mountains, but instead of it just being blown by strong winds the sow oved into the valley. These are some of the shots I took while it was happening and still is happening but I wanted to get this posted while it was happening. This is the latest storms we have had while I have lived at Trinity and is one of the things that makes living in the mountains so very special.



If you love the snow as much as I do then enjoy these few shots and if not and you are seeing snow then just send it this way where it is very appreciated... I like the cooler temps that allow for the snow instead of rain which would really make things difficult for getting around.


We found our Paradise, hope you find your's too. Peace

Paradise from the Front Pond

Many of my friends and people I meet think that I must be crazy to live in the middle of nowhere as they call it, just because I'm not in town or have a store down on the corner, closest one is 23 miles away. At first I had to get used to it by making sure to get what I needed while in town or being able to do without it until the next journey out. Sometimes it isn't the easiest especially for someone with very bad knees and shoulders but then I go outside and look around me and see the wonderful majestic mountains surrounding me and the beautiful landscape that changes often.


These photos were taken from the front pond actually the south side of the pond looking back toward Buck Mountain and the Chiwawa's in the top photo. The middle photo is looking back from the front pond toward Fortress Mountain & Massie Ridge and the bottom photo shows Massie Ridge and Chiwawa Mountain with Red Mountain. When I get up each morning and look out and see those mountains all around me and no traffic to contend with especially right now during the meltout I am grateful to live in such a wonderful place, fact is I can't see living anywhere else.



Most of my friends that make it here want to stay but just can't break away from the rat race, and I don't even know what that is. Living here is slow paced most of the time unless I'm trying to keep up with the dogs on one of their outings. I think it is wonderful to have such a place to live and enjoy everyday and the only thing that could possibly make it better is someone to share it with all the time, my dogs are great and they do have their own language but it is still a guessing game as to what they want at times. It's nice to have someone to talk to while exploring all around the place we call Paradise.
We found our Paradise, hpe you find your's too. Peace

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