This is a parade of five rafts heading towards the rapids. A friend who runs a raft company says that it’s been a very slow season. She thinks the RVers who usually raft with them didn’t come this year because of high gas prices. This healthy flotilla of paying guests was a flash from the past.
We may have passed high water this year.
The red line is this year’s hydrograph, and you’d think those high flow days would come as a surprise, but they don’t. For two days this year the river flow doubled… and I got kayaking pictures from both days. Those peak flows are ecstatic. A lot of the reshaping of a river occurs in those few days when the flow is two and three times higher than the mean.
High water is a thrill but I don’t mind the lower flows of summer. My personal favorite is tubing season, but for that you have to wait until July, when the flow is below 600 cubic feet per second. Drinks and snacks are optional.
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