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James
climber
My twin brother's laundry room
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 23, 2010 - 07:34pm PT
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Who was around the park then? How high did the water go? Did it go into Camp 4?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 23, 2010 - 07:47pm PT
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My daughter is 5'3"
I was in Reno during that. the night it started it began raining as high as 12,000', virtually the whole snowpack melted off up and down the sierras. Reno flooded big time, only some of the bridges across the truckee river were high enough, people were getting around downtown by canoe for a week!
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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Feb 23, 2010 - 07:57pm PT
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I was working at Mammoth Mountain at the time. Mammoth got something like a foot of rain, but we still had plenty of snow after it was over. Miles of Highway 395 in Walker Canyon were washed out, and there was a detour through Nevada for many months after.
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 23, 2010 - 08:02pm PT
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I can tell ya everything you want about it James but it has to be live.
I can't type all this stuff up, there's way to much ....
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 23, 2010 - 08:29pm PT
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That photo that Jaybro posted of Natalie by the sign - the flood level indicated on the sign is 4 - 5 m or more above the usual level of the Merced.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Feb 23, 2010 - 09:28pm PT
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Barely made Sickle Ledge.
I was in Foresta and have my own stories.
Ken
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john hansen
climber
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Feb 23, 2010 - 09:41pm PT
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Seeing the sign showing how high it was at the last turnout going out of the valley it is amazing to think how wide it must have been there. For sure over the road on both sides of the valley. Ponoho bridge must of been under 15 or 20 ft of water.
How long was the valley isolated? Could you even get in on 41? Did it flood the Awahnee or the market? Just curious.
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john hansen
climber
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Feb 23, 2010 - 09:45pm PT
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Any one have a picture of what the falls looked like?
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john hansen
climber
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Feb 23, 2010 - 09:58pm PT
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Which waterfall is that about 1:36 into the you tube clip?
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Feb 23, 2010 - 10:05pm PT
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I was in Lower pines and awakened early in the morning by the odd combination of sounds, people mumbling and the sounds of people sloshing around as if in a bathtub.
I stayed dry. Pops drilled in the sleeping on a high spot drill early in my childhood. Some of my mates were on the picnic tables by morning. People sloshing around with soggy sleeping bags over their shoulders in the dawn gloom, occasionally the violent splashing of someone chasing down an errant cooler floating away. The park was closed and the evacuation begun just as we packed up and got out of there.
Early that spring we'd skied into the meadows and spent a few days. The snow survey crews had posted their survey results on the bulletin board in the cabin. Snow depths were in the 20ft range and water content was 50%. It was obvious it was going to be a big runoff year.
We just didn't expect to experience both ends of it.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 24, 2010 - 12:08am PT
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And the big runoff usually doesn't happen on January 2nd.
It was very cold and snowy in Vancouver in December 1996. There was a massive snowfall on about December 29th - well over 40 cm, a record. Then it warmed quickly and was horribly wet for some days. So we had some problems, although the snow in the mountains mostly just consolidated rather than melted.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Feb 24, 2010 - 12:17am PT
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Was off by a few months. We were there for the May 96 event.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Feb 24, 2010 - 12:48am PT
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John, that is Upper Yosemite Falls in the Youtube video. I have my own video from Foresta that KPIX used for their newscast. I wish I had been in the Valley or El Portal when it happened. Would have been so cool! El Portal residents said that they could hear rocks rolling down the river bed and could see the sparks from them doing so at night. How cool is that?
Ken
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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May 25, 2010 - 12:18am PT
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I don't know how the 2005 flood stacks up against other years (excluding the big one in 97') , but I thought it was pretty interesting and powerful .
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Dec 27, 2016 - 09:32pm PT
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I was camping at camp 4 on 12-27-28-1997 left as soon as sunrise quite a snow storm
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 27, 2016 - 09:50pm PT
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hey there say, james, and all... wow, i never knew of any of this...
thanks for sharing...
and, ken, wow, the el portal part, oh my...
also, thanks for the 2005, share, as well...
oh myyyyyyyy...
would love to hear werner's story, too...
james:
thanks for bring this up...
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wayne w
Trad climber
the nw
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Dec 28, 2016 - 07:38am PT
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I was in the Merced Canyon watching the river rise at an alarming rate. Left just before it crested.
A friend, who lived in El Portal at the time, said that he was kept awake all night by the sound of his windows shaking from the vibration caused by the rock being thrown around by the river.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Dec 30, 2016 - 04:09pm PT
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The '97 flood essentially destroyed all the Yosemite Lodge cabins. They were getting long in the tooth anyway but YP&CCo tossed in the towel (likely with strong NPS urging) and that summer all the cabins were removed. Now it's all meadow and it's hard to find a trace of the cabins.
That removed a lot of cabins from the rental stockpile.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Dec 30, 2016 - 04:12pm PT
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The '97 flood essentially destroyed all the Yosemite Lodge cabins
And the employee tent cabins, wooden cabins and dorms ..)-;
Lost in the Ozone..
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