moab mark
08-08-2010, 08:33 PM
This isn't canyoneering but thought I would post it here.
I was down to Powell this weekend. We bailed 2 days early due to it raining every afternoon. On Saturday we were sitting around watching these ugly clouds moving in when all of a sudden it let loose. It rained hard for about 10 minutes with the wind trying to tear everything apart it could get it's hands on. Just as it started to stop raining this small stream started to appear in front of our Houseboat. It flowed for about an hour and half. Each break in the video is about 20 minutes apart.
The next day we climbed out to have a look of what was up above. The drainage was about a mile square slick rock basin. I was really suprised how fast it started running and how long it flowed.
On a side note some guy came by in his boat on friday when it was raining and warned us that a houseboat was sunk in that location 3 years ago from a flash flood. He said it turned the boat sideways and sunk it. He recommend if it started coming down hard to be prepared to push off and float away. We thought he was nuts. Maybe he wasn't nuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0q_4cyw1M
I was down to Powell this weekend. We bailed 2 days early due to it raining every afternoon. On Saturday we were sitting around watching these ugly clouds moving in when all of a sudden it let loose. It rained hard for about 10 minutes with the wind trying to tear everything apart it could get it's hands on. Just as it started to stop raining this small stream started to appear in front of our Houseboat. It flowed for about an hour and half. Each break in the video is about 20 minutes apart.
The next day we climbed out to have a look of what was up above. The drainage was about a mile square slick rock basin. I was really suprised how fast it started running and how long it flowed.
On a side note some guy came by in his boat on friday when it was raining and warned us that a houseboat was sunk in that location 3 years ago from a flash flood. He said it turned the boat sideways and sunk it. He recommend if it started coming down hard to be prepared to push off and float away. We thought he was nuts. Maybe he wasn't nuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0q_4cyw1M