Jeff, amazingly thrilling video and I played "Lanny" as I watched the water for eddy currents, back flows, boils and I also noticed at one point you going up a wall with the camera and I said "YES YES Jeff I see what you see! I was amazed to see how clean the water was! To me that indicates that not too much dirt is moving and I found that a bit puzzling, like the grounds capacity to absorb the water has not been reached yet, maybe?
MY first hike into the NFAR in NorCal was February 1963, I had snow flurries at my 1949 Willys 4 x 4 pickup and soon after starting down the mountain into Green Valley it was raining. The river was roaring, similar to your video, it was wall to wall and high (though I did not know that then), huge pine trees were going swiftly down stream, boulders were bouncing on the bottom of the river (again aka Lanny inputs with cracks being beaten shut) and the color of the water was milk chocolate brown! I still have that picture of the river burned into my memory as it was that picture of the river, the forest, the mountains and all the dynamic sound that hooked me into exploring that location for 50 years. What an awesome time I've had and will have as I get back into the mountains starting in SoCal.
Goldenirishman - yes, I was also looking at maps and came up with the same general location of Julian (apple pie and hot liquid drinks) and Bostonia.
Goldwasher, 4.5" in one afternoon is A LOT of water and how those mountain sides collect it and funnel it down to the valley floor, also known as the River Channel! When the ground water has saturated the hillsides, loosening the grip of plants rocks and dirt to the bedrock then is when the real earth movement will start. It just depends on how much the snow pack is and how quickly it heats up to melt the snow back into water that will make the call for how high the major water flows will be.
I just checked the water flow on the NFAR and yesterday about afternoon it hit 6000 cfs up from 200 cfs. My MY!
I am So looking forward to being back out there!................63bkpkr
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Like a kid in a Candy Store!
This is the pool at Mumford Bar just before it drops into the gorge that goes down to Italian Bar Trail, I mean FYI.
John
