Amazing video footage shot 3 days ago of the Sandy river, which is the primary drainage for the west side of 12,000 ft Mt Hood. Warm temps lately combined with record precip have brought down some of our record early season snowpack into the drainage, turning the normally crystal clear upper Sandy into a roiling Amazonian dragon, eating dirt, trees, roads, and homes. Behold nature at work.

http://vimeo.com/18921387

Wow. Good find, Zane.

How many Spotted Owls died making that video

Glidergeek wrote:How many Spotted Owls died making that video

None, but afterward they probably killed some Spotted Dick at the pub.



*Spotted dick is a traditional English custard-like dessert, not a man's name or component of his anatomy.

I was going to comment that it looks like good floodwater paddling until I noted the falling strainers...

It'd be interesting to see what that river looks like with a normal or moderate flow?

Crazy video! Tried to fly up today to take a look, but low ceilings wouldn't allow it.

Glidergeek wrote:It'd be interesting to see what that river looks like with a normal or moderate flow?

It's not exactly a pussycat, but it varies with the time of year. Spring snowmelt is pretty high flow, late summer is pretty sedate.

This looks like a early summer shot, shot a few miles downstream of that footage, if my guess is correct:


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Glidergeek wrote:It'd be interesting to see what that river looks like with a normal or moderate flow?

And this is taken upstream on the Muddy Fork of the Sandy around Labor day. The other branches looked the same. We never did get our feet wet.