Lake City Potential Flooding

[DArcyS]

I like this graph showing how quickly they can fill Blue Mesa Reservoir:

http://bluemesa.water-data.com/

A lot of water flowing into Blue Mesa, including from Lake City. They can now raise Blue Mesa by 2' in a day, and that's a lot of water. But I suppose that water is being captured over a large area of land, so it makes sense. And if they don't fill Blue Mesa this year, that tells me they just don't want it full.

The stream flow of the Vallecito coming out of the Weminuche is also interesting to look at:

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/uv/? ... 0065,00060

Probably more interesting stuff here:

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/curr ... key=huc_cd (which somebody had posted earlier).

[TravelingMatt]

A lot of water flowing into Blue Mesa, including from Lake City. They can now raise Blue Mesa by 2' in a day, and that's a lot of water. But I suppose that water is being captured over a large area of land, so it makes sense. And if they don't fill Blue Mesa this year, that tells me they just don't want it full.

Blue Mesa was way down last year and the most recent forecast is for it to top out at 7518', two feet below capacity.

https://www.usbr.gov/uc/water/crsp/cs/asp.html

[DArcyS]

Well, I guess that's full enough.

[San Juan Ron]

The closure on CR 20 is now beyond Nellie Creek at the winter closure.

[peter303]

New article

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/16/s ... od-threat/

[nunns]

The closure on CR 20 is now beyond Nellie Creek at the winter closure.

Glad to hear this. Hopefully Lake City will be minimally affected by the flooding, and climbers will be able to access the mountains near there fairly soon.
Has anyone been able to climb Uncompahgre or Wetterhorn yet this year?

Sean Nunn

[Chicago Transplant]

I posted a trailhead status for it with pictures if people are curious about Alpine Loop snow on the west.

I see your status update. But unfortunately I don't see your images. I see some older images showing the area bone dry. I'm on an Android phone.

It worked for me on my Android. If you are on the TH page, click on the date box of my status report and it opens a separate page with thumbnails for the images I posted. Its from 2.5 weeks ago now, but I am sure the snow canyons still exist!

[ParkerTodd16]

Per Hinsdale County FB post:

“ROAD OPENINGS!

Starting tomorrow, Thursday, June 19, the following road closures are changing:
-- CR 30 will be open to Burrows Park (Cooper Lake, Grizzly Gulch and Silver Creek trailheads).
-- CR 20 will be open to Capitol City”

Looks like things are progressing nicely! Now need all this snow to melt quickly but safely!

[BillMiddlebrook]

I posted a trailhead status for it with pictures if people are curious about Alpine Loop snow on the west.

I see your status update. But unfortunately I don't see your images. I see some older images showing the area bone dry. I'm on an Android phone.

It worked for me on my Android. If you are on the TH page, click on the date box of my status report and it opens a separate page with thumbnails for the images I posted. Its from 2.5 weeks ago now, but I am sure the snow canyons still exist!

She may be using the mobile app, which doesn't show images on condition reports. I never added the functionality for the mobile app to retrieve the images. Sorry

[Will_E]

The closure on CR 20 is now beyond Nellie Creek at the winter closure.

Glad to hear this. Hopefully Lake City will be minimally affected by the flooding, and climbers will be able to access the mountains near there fairly soon.
Has anyone been able to climb Uncompahgre or Wetterhorn yet this year?

Sean Nunn

I climbed Uncompahgre Easter weekend.

[San Juan Ron]

Good news (and the very cool temps this June is keeping runoff somewhat constrained).

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[nunns]

Good news (and the very cool temps this June is keeping runoff somewhat constrained). F4B711A6-F6F0-4E85-B1E7-913D04C163C3.jpeg

Great news for Lake City and the "tourist" climbers who are planning to head there in the coming weeks.

Sean Nunn
Raytown, MO