I have a trip planned on the San Juan River in SE Utah, and the drainage
basin in SW Colorado is at 164% of normal snowpack! We are concerned
that high water will make the trip more difficult than we expected.
This trip is in open canoes with some paddlers without much whitewater
experience.

Snowpack in the rest of Colorado varies, but the southern part of the
state is well over normal, with the northern part at or a little below
normal. Reservoirs in Colorado are generally near normal levels, since
we had good snowfall last season. The Denver Water board is reporting
73% average for their reservoirs, a little below normal, but not bad.

If you do some Google searching, you can find out snowpack in all the
usual places.

Richard


wrote:
Winter was rather mild here in Central Minnesota. Probably one of the
lowest accumulated snowfalls the Twin City area has ever recorded.
More snow further north, but still shy of the typical 110 inches.

California has been inundated with moisture. Sierras have record
snowfall. But what about the rest of the West?

Chuck P - how is Idaho shaping up?
Anyone with any inside information on what Utah is looking like?

With the rather low precipitation levels of the last several years, I
would expect most of the snow melt will go into refilling the
reservoirs and not much will emerge downstream.

RailTramp

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Blakely LaCroix
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
RBP Clique member #86

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