Archives for July 2011

On Friday evening Austin Woody, Kyle McCutchen and myself put-in 1/4 mile below Poudre Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park on approximately 30 cfs – just enough to float a boat in a four foot wide streambed. On Saturday evening we took out at the big eddy below Picnic Rock, exhausted, satisfied, in awe of the river before us, having paddled it’s entire canyon in under 30 hours. What a river, what a season!

 

Big South update: Clean of new wood for the most part without any wood portages at a relatively high flow. Fantasy Flight is back open for business. Couple of wood ducks below Double Trouble, first one on the right, second in the middle (left part of the log, been there forever). Clean as it has ever been. Awesome. Spencer is clean.

All runs are still med-high to high, but no longer charging. Quality boating to be had up there!

Beware… Carnito Canyon on JW has changed big time. The flake has rolled to the right and the rock in the next drop flushed out and have deposited all over the rest of the rapid. The eddy at the top is the same, but that’s about it.

Roll on Big South…

Today: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Increasing clouds, with a high near 87. East wind at 8 mph becoming south.

Tonight: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. Southeast wind between 10 and 13 mph becoming light. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph.

Currently 81.5F, sunny and breezy. Poudre Park Wx: This Afternoon: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 86 by 5pm. Calm wind becoming east between 4 and 7 mph.

Tonight: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. North northwest wind between 3 and 10 mph.

Currently 53F, sunny and calm. Heads Up- the Sheriff lifted the tubing ban, so watch for them on the Riv. They should ONLY be on the Filter Plant. However, in recent years I’ve seen future Darwin Award recipients floating past Camp Falbo on tubes- that’s right two bends above Cardiac and less than a mile from Pine View.

Home Wx: Today: Sunny, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming southwest between 6 and 9 mph.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 60. West wind between 11 and 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.