2011 Snowpack vs. Record Breaking + Flood Watch

[accadacca]

The rivers are getting high and fast. Be careful out there!

[Scott P]

Photos I took of the Yampa River and Elk River flooding:









The Elk River broke it's CFS record, but the Yampa River is a long way from record, even though it's flooding.

So far there has been flooding and a few records, but so far it's not as widespread as in 1983. There is still plenty of snow in the mountains (Snowbird currently reports 159" @ 9840 feet and Buffalo Pass [NW Colorado] reports 147" @10,500 feet ), so no one is out of the woods yet and it is certainly possible that several of the rivers haven't peaked yet.

I also updated the spreadsheet for Alta:

[accadacca]

I was up at East Canyon last night and it is FULL. Every lake I pass is filled to the brim with more on the way. Check out this picture I took from Bear Lake on Monday. This was my road to the beach and we had 150 yards of beach here last year. Hell, we had 75 yards of beach past the green swamp. Not much beach left at Bear Lake...

[moab mark]

Sitting on the front porch of my Dad's cabin on the Laketown side. Bear Lake is coming up.

[accadacca]

Just took this from my backyard. The snow is melting rapidly and I hear Guardsmans Pass is now open.

http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthre...Pass-Gate-OPEN!