Well, rookies, here it is…our world famous Rock Creek Logo-O-Meter, created during the high runoff of 2011. This collection of woodwork is a good pictorial of just what high water this year’s runoff will create in the weeks ahead. Right now, at 1440 cubic feet per second, you can see Rock Creek’s somewhat docile water flow. When the water touches the bottom of the tree laying over the stream, the flow will be right at 2,000 cfs. In the high water year of 2011, when the flow exceeded 5,000 cfs, the water was free flowing over the top of the cross log, leaving its remnant reminders of that high water year (something that we may witness again this year)!
The bonus shot is of the dusting of snow that, upon arrival, greeted us last evening atop the Sapphire Mountain range that makes up Rock Creek valley’s western ridge (Rock Creek flows from the south northward parallel to Rock Creek Road)—they are the second largest (to a range in Australia) depository of sapphire’s in the world!!
As you veterans know, Montana is home of some of the most marvelous vistas in the world…that is why we our second home is here, a place that we look forward to welcoming you to with open arms in now just a few weeks.
Best to all amid the evolving glory of it all,
RCR---<’///:><
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