Rain

[hollowdweller]

When you are down in the valley you never realize how fast the water can come up when it rains.

When I was backpacking on the Otter Creek Trail last year this is pic of me at the swimming hole near where the old logging camp used to be.

We got some really hard rain that night but by the next morning look how much the water had come up. The second pic is taken from the shore due to the water level but the sort of "falls" in the background of the pics is where the rocks that were behind me were in the first, and the calm pool is whitewater.

Luckily we could make all the crossings. It is not uncommon after rain for folks to be stuck and unable to cross. Esp during winter. If the rain is not sustained it goes down pretty fast.

 

[tarmix101]

I'm no expert, but especially in the dessert it can rain miles away and flash flood in an area where you least expect it.

Around here we see a lot of what you showed there. I fly fish in a area called the "North Fork" in Idaho. Lots of streams and cricks shooting off the main river. Rain can swell them up in no time at all.

 

[pitdog]

Some difference there bro, but it looks a great place none the less !!!

 

[hollowdweller]

Some difference there bro, but it looks a great place none the less !!!

it is. would love to convince some forumites to go next summer.

 

[Briggz]

I am ready, good fishing there? HD you are in WBGV, where abouts?

 

[GEC]

There was only one time I have seen a flash flood. I was utterly amazed how fast it can happen.

 

[hollowdweller]

I am ready, good fishing there? HD you are in WBGV, where abouts?

I have never fished there but I think so. I live in SW WV but Otter Creek is in north central near Elkins about 3.5 hrs from me.

 

[Briggz]

I dated a girl who was origionally from Greenbank, over there by Snowshoe beautiful country.

 

[hollowdweller]

That's way to the east of Otter Creek.

 

[DaleW]

If you are hiking below a big dam the same thing can happen. HEY MOE, IT'S GETTING WET!

 

[xinel]

I used to live in the desert where we would get a few large cyclones every year, a dry creek bead would turn into a few meters of raging water overnight. Where you are looks a lot nicer though

 

[22-rimfire]

Pretty spot Hollowdweller. I been trout fishing during sustained rain and had the water rise almost that much. Makes it kind of tough to fish. And you could easily be trapped on the "wrong side" of the creek and have a very difficult time finding a place to cross that is safe. Often it means getting wet in the process. The rapid rise in creek levels happen this time of the year (or until about March) often when there is not as much vegetation to hold the precip (or rapid snow melt) back and the soil is frequently already pretty wet.