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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 14, 2009 - 04:54pm PT
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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Oct 14, 2009 - 05:56pm PT
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WOW! Heading to the Merced with the kayak :).
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2009 - 04:08am PT
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hey there, say... wonderful, though the download is still unfolding...
thanks for the share... :)
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hb81
climber
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Oct 15, 2009 - 06:49am PT
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is that foam in the foreground of the second picture?
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
obsessively minitracking all winter at Knob Hill
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Oct 15, 2009 - 11:30am PT
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The river was full of huge, fresh banks of foam- like old snowbanks in the spring.
We drove up to the valley around lunchtime and what had been a wet, trickly boulderfield was now a raging, springtime gusher. Table Rock was underwater, barely creating a riffle. The Arch Rock standing wave was going off in full force. Plans for a random recon hike were immediately changed as my friend had only visited in the fall and thus never seen big waterfalls here. We trekked up to Yosemite Point through the mist and ogled the Falls coming and going. They were noticeably smaller at 7pm than at 1, and on the way home Table Rock was dry on top. Granite basins dump out pretty quick!
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hb81
climber
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Oct 15, 2009 - 11:52am PT
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uh... isn't such foam usually a sign of very bad water quality? :(
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billygoat
climber
cruzville
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Oct 15, 2009 - 11:54am PT
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This is pure speculation, but I would imagine there's all sorts of nasty crap that gets washed out of the creek bed in the first storm. That might explain the foam.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Oct 15, 2009 - 01:18pm PT
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Quality content bump.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Oct 15, 2009 - 01:32pm PT
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The foam is created by tree sap. We get it here in Wawona and we have one of the purist rivers in America. This was told to me by a Yosemite biologist. The purity of this river has been fully studied and is one of the benchmarks for purity. At least above Wawona.
Up this high, its Tree sap. Down lower it can be soaps and such, combined with natural things like tree sap.
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