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Spring Storms may Ensure Exciting California Rafting Season
from a Deep Sierra Snowpack
Walnut Creek, CA (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) April 5, 2005 --
It doesn't happen often to the Sierra snowpack, but when it
does, you can be sure the rafing season will be one for the
record books. The phenomenon California rafting outfitters
are so excited about is the recent flurry of early spring
storms—storms which guaranteed California’s snowpack
will result in raftable river flows well into the 2005 summer
rafting season.
(Early
spring storms brought with it a deeply layered Sierra snowpack,
promises an extended spring river runoff and what may be the
longest season of whitewater rafting California has seen in
a long time.)
Though
it's been an above average wet season in general, California
rafting outfitters always hold their breath through the month
of March. They know an early spring can melt precious snow
too early for rafters to take advantage. This year however,
recent late storms have thrown an insulating blanket on an
already heavy California snowpack.
This isn’t a little blanket either—it’s like
five blankets, says Gregg Armstrong, co-owner of All-Outdoors
California Whitewater Rafting. So when the weather gets warm,
that’s the layer that melts first, not the deep snowpack
underneath. That’s how you get an extended rafting season
and exciting flows in May, June, and July.
Enjoy an Exciting and Breathtaking
Whitewater Rafting Vacation
A late-melting snowpack means a lot to California whitewater
rafters. When there's an ample Sierra snowpack and it melts
slowly, un-dammed rivers like the Kaweah, Merced, North Stanislaus,
and the North Fork American have longer seasons. This year's
snowpack also means higher water levels on dammed rivers like
the South Fork of the American River.
Heavy
Sierra snowpack
The California Department of Water Resources says this winter's
storms produced the heaviest Sierra Nevada snowpack in ten
years. However, for whitewater rafters the only numbers that
matter are the snowpack water content totals. This year, they
have reason to rejoice—as of April 1st, statewide snow
water content is 137% of normal. Compare that with last year’s
average of 80% on the same date. It seems that anyone who
had the pleasure of skiing on the California snowpack this
winter will also have the satisfaction of riding its waves
well into the summer months.
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