Just a few dozen feet downstream from a tremendous slot-canyon waterfall, Canyon Creek tumbles noisily over boulders in the stream bed when it has sufficiently robust flow. Early autumn typically is the lowest-discharge period of the year for streams in the central Rockies, with the minimal amount of upstream snow remaining from the prior winter. However, I caught this one on the day after an unusually productive autumnal rain event, aided and abetted by the midlevel remnants of an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone.
Ouray CO (3 Oct 18) Looking W
38.0182, -107.6786Rapids of Canyon Creek
Just a few dozen feet downstream from a tremendous slot-canyon waterfall, Canyon Creek tumbles noisily over boulders in the stream bed when it has sufficiently robust flow. Early autumn typically is the lowest-discharge period of the year for streams in the central Rockies, with the minimal amount of upstream snow remaining from the prior winter. However, I caught this one on the day after an unusually productive autumnal rain event, aided and abetted by the midlevel remnants of an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone.
Ouray CO (3 Oct 18) Looking W
38.0182, -107.6786