Klamath

[Rick J]

Anyone up for a trip on the lower Klamath? I have always wanted to run my jet bot on the river when it was over 100,000 cfs!

[dberry]

Are you crazy?? You'll only try that once and they may never find your remains!! Everything is blown out over here and will be for at least two weeks.

[Rick J]

Now I really want to go run the river and fish - it is running at 246,000 cfs - guess I will need more than a type 3 tip?

Here is a message from Bruce - anyone who knows where the house on the rock is on the lower Klamath - that is Mary Ann's - expect the river is higher than when he wrote this!


Rick, I just got back from Rod and Mary Ann's. Rod called this morning and the river is in the orchard. I went and help move some equipment up the hill. The river is impressive lots of big logs floating down. There is a constant debris line. It started snowing and lightning I was under a tree out back when one of the tops came crashing down not fifteen feet from me. I took that as a sign that it was time to get the hell out of Dodge!

[Adam Grace]

Holy Crap! That's huge!

Thanks for the update Rick

[J.R. Hubbard]

I signed up just to reply to this post.
That' HUGE! I was lucky enough to get a tour of Mary Ann's place in Aug. At the time we were looking up about 100 or more feet to her cabin from the water...that's amazing!

[Darian]

Hey JR,.... Welcome to the BB community. Hope you'll contribute more....

Didn't see it but I keep wondering how high the water was at that point in the Klamath during the 1964 flood year.

[Digger]

and the winning motto is:

http://www.klamathbucketbrigade.org/

[Rick J]

HA!!! What is a measily 300,000 cfs - it is now at 405,000. Mary Ann's house was dry during the 64 flood but it is pearched on a rock with lower ground all around and the river had the place surrounded. They have lower builidings that serve as the guest cabins that could be in trouble on this one though most are raised some above existing ground.

Hope she is taking pictures if she stayed home - might be able to get some posted!

[Adam Grace]

That would be awesome to see Rick. I still can't beleive the river is flowing so hig up, pretty crazy!

[J.R. Hubbard]

When we got the tour of her place, we walked up a steep hill from the river through her orchard. We saw all the other cabins and they aren't much higher than the orchard is. I hope her place is OK. Some pictures would be amazing. I think I have one from the boat looking up at her place in Aug. I'll have to figure out how to post a picture first!