Category: Behind the Boats

Update: 12:18pm 8/8/19 A couple more storms happened up north Tuesday and Wednesday – we’re not in danger of cancelling trips but it does mean we’ll get that rise in water levels right over the weekend. We’ll probably lose about 12″ of sandbar leaving us near the 10-12kcfs range which means our large sandbars will…

I haven’t seen a forecast this good in a long, long time. Aside from great weather to be outside in, this dry sunny stretch should really help drive down those recent high water levels to their late summer lows. I’d expect sandbars to be out in force by roughly Wednesday (though we’ve already got a…

River levels are dropping quickly and as expected. We will just barely be able to squeeze trips out tomorrow (Friday) with Saturday and Sunday looking pretty good considering all of the rain that just made it’s way through the system. If the mostly dry forecast ahead holds, we should be near normal flow rates and…

Update: 7/24 12:12pm Nailed it. Dam at Castle Rock just dropped to 10.5kcfs (my graph doesn’t reflect this at time of post but my data straight from the source below does) which should get us to ~13kcfs here with room for error under our 15kcfs cap. I’m expecting this flow rate to mostly hold through…

Update: July 20, 2019 7:04am Water is beginning its drop and should be reasonable tonight (still fine as is at 12kcfs but will be happier below 10kcfs for extra sandbar availability). Forecast models look to be bringing a single storm through sometime this afternoon with some lingering rain and then clearing out for the evening/Sunday.…