Category: Behind the Boats

July 13 Update Looks like better news on the weather front.  We should see most rain or storms on Friday afternoon/evening and a limited chance of rain on Saturday.  There’s even potential for the whole shortwave system to fall off to our south which would leave us fairly dry.  At any rate, we’re only expecting…

Crazy amount of wind for a few minutes last night as the first storm came by but otherwise the rest of the night turned out to be pretty quiet with only a small amount of rain.  Still questionable what exactly happens today but looks like we’ll see something come through between 12pm and 2pm.  Once…

Temps into the higher 90s today with a ‘feels like’ over 100 – good thing the water is 73.  Looking at a 50% chance of storms coming through tonight; they are mostly expected to stay in a line west of us but a few could break free and make their way here.  Probably worth tying…

Water levels are continuing to drop nicely upstream and it’s looking like we’ll have a decent number of sandbars above water by Friday with more coming out as the weekend progresses.  It’s pretty likely you’ll be sharing some of the larger sandbars with new friends but at least they’ll be out there. Temperatures are expected…

Update: 6/25 Everything below still holds, sandbars should be back ~Thursday.  We’re going to get a little more rain in our immediate area but further north is expected to get significantly less which is overall good news.  We should know definitively by tomorrow (Tuesday) mid-morning. ======= We’re about a day away from peak river on…

It’s official, we’re out of commission well into next week. We’re expecting over 40kcfs of water on our stretch of river by the middle of this weekend. Just a couple days ago we were at 5kcfs and our cutoff is 15kcfs so you can understand why seeing 40kcfs in the NOAA predictions makes cancelling all…

The overall volume of water in the river system is tripling (or more) right now.  New readings coming out of Castle Rock upstream already put us underwater and it’ll only get worse as the next few tributaries up the numbers before this water gets to us. Trips through Thursday are officially cancelled due to high…

A very narrow storm rolled through last night and while overall rainfall totals weren’t a lot, it sat right on top of the entire river valley. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a pretty large spike in water levels throughout the whole system upstream of us. We’ll see the amount of water more than double between…

This spring has been what I like to call reversion to the mean. Water levels continue to remain at or below the 100 year average which means a lot more sandbars than you’d usually see in June, certainly compared to the last few years. This coming weekend in particular looks to be relatively clear and…