[pct-l] water around Warner Springs

[Mike]

Canada Verde
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.26639,+-116.62528+%28Coordinates%29&iwloc=A&hl=en


San Ysidro Creek
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.24806,+-116.59917+%28Coordinates%29&iwloc=A&hl=en


Agua Caliente Crk
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.29552,+-116.63850+%28Coordinates%29&iwloc=A&hl=en


Mike


On 4/18/21 12:00 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 07:08:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Hough reading PCT-L <pctl at oakapple.net>
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Cc: water at pctwater.com
> Subject: [pct-l] water around Warner Springs
> Message-ID: <202104181408.13IE8OKq002001 at server-f.oakapple.net>
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> Barrel Springs stil has water as of 16 Apr but it's a rusty shadow of what I
> found 20 years ago.
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> San Ysidro Creek is running small but clear and well.
>
> Canada Verde remains a stunning oasis after what came before.   The water does
> disappear by the time you get to the highway, as usual.
>
> Likewise Agua Caliente is dry at the highway but running at the first crossing
> after the "picnic tables" which seem to now be just one table at a height for
> standing, with no sitting.     The creek gets better and better at each crossing,
> but I didn't have a good answer for the question of how do you tell which is
> the last crossing.    You'll know after the fact.    I had an easy time hiking
> southbound for the day.
>
> The water report lists lots of down trees in the first part of section B.   They've
> all been cleared as the trail is quite easy to follow now.
>
> There were lots of hikers on the trail, and lots of gliders soaring overhead, and
> occasional supersonic military aircraft.
>
> Lots of flowers too, more than I remember from 20 years ago when I came by just
> after the kickoff.     Surprising considering the bleak prospects at places like
> the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve.
>
> There were signs up that the Snow Creek trail closure has been lifted.
>
> David Hough
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