[pct-l] RE: Ysidro Creek Dry????

[msaenz at mve-architects.com (Mike Saenz)]

Very strange indeed!
When I was there on the 17th & 18th, it had rained (at some times rather heavily) on Saturday.
But I was there, also, with Paul Freiman (Cpt. Bivy) on March 7th. Ysidro Creek was flowing just as strong as on the 17th & 18th...
Very odd. No, these streams are not fed by snow melt. And there's a pipe that runs from higher up above where The Trail crosses it. I suspect that this pipe is what feeds the tank below.

Nowhere Man's report that the creek was dry one day and flowing the next, suggests some sort of control upstream.

Anyone out there with any info on this?

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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	AsABat [mailto:AsABat@4Jeffrey.Net] 
Sent:	Sunday, May 02, 2004 12:51 AM
To:	Mike Saenz
Subject:	Re: Ysidro Creek Dry????

Mike-

>From Nowhere Man's trail journal on 4/29 regarding San Ysidro Creek:

the creek that had been bone dry the night before was now gushing away at
several gallons per minute.

Strange. It's not snow melt, so I wonder what's going on? Maybe a well
upstream feeds it, until the rancher turns the pump off?

Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "AsABat" <AsABat@4Jeffrey.Net>
To: "Mike Saenz" <msaenz@mve-architects.com>; "PCT Mail List (E-mail)"
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Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: Ysidro Creek Dry????


> I grabbed this info from Rik's Trail Journal of 4/28, which reads "As the
> San Ysidro creek was dry, I had to hike another 4 miles to Canada Verde."
As
> it is 4 miles from Barrel Spring to San Ysidro Creek, and he camped at the
> water source, maybe he was mistaken. Since he's on the trail, I don't
expect
> him to respond, I'll modify the site to reflect the uncertainty, and hope
> someone will have better info soon.
>
> AsABat
>