[pct-l] Re: Early season Streams Techniques and problem creeks

[hiker at godlikebuthumble.com (Hiker)]

At 09:21 AM 1/7/04, Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
>It would be REALLY helpful when posting messages like this to note the year
>that you are referring to.  Conditions change not only day to day and week to
>week but radically from year to year.  Your experiences even last year may 
>not
>be applicable to anything this year.

Actually, your experienced In the morning may not be applicable to anything 
this afternoon.

At the time thru hikers go thru (prime melt,) conditions change very fast. 
Creek levels change from morning to evening, and drastically from week to 
week. A group that was 2 weeks ahead of me found the footbridge at Glen 
Aulin (Toulomne Meadows area) completely underwater, and had to swim.  The 
water must have been 6 feet lower when I went through.

That being said, I had problems with these when I went through. You will 
probably have problems too if you are on a thru-hiker schedule

South fork of Kings River (very large log bridge about 1/2 mile upstream 
the year I did it)
Bear Creek (stream spits in 3 parts about a mile upstream, each is a jump-able)
Evolution Creek (cross in the meadow upstream of the current trail, at the 
old trail crossing)
Kerrick Canyon. (I crossed on a log about half mile upstream, but I doubt 
it is still there...)

There were a couple of others, but not quite as bad. Bear Creek and Kerrick 
Canyons are the ones that really scared me.