Bob Palin's Blog

A Very Wet September Day The whole summer of 2013 has been very wet but the last few days have been exceptional, people have measured as much as 6.5" of rain in that time, the average annual rainfall is 7". Water ran down the road and into my drive early in the morning. ©2013, Fremont River Photography I went to the park to get some waterfall pictures but discovered that the road was closed, however I was able to walk down to the place where the Fremont River had jumped its banks and flooded the road. The water was about 8" deep when I was there but the UDOT driver said it had been over 3 feet during the night. © 2013, Fremont River Photography © 2013, Fremont River Photography ©2013, Fremont River Photography

July 25th 2007 We have been having heavy thunderstorms every day for the last week with quite a lot of rain falling, on the evening of Tuesday 24th the rain fell particularly heavily for a couple of hours over the canyon between the Anthill and Thousand Lake Mountain (and over Torrey at the same time). This is the catchment area for Sand Creek which flows down from Thousand Lake Mountain then turns east across the north end of Torrey before joining Sulphur Creek and flowing into Capitol Reef NP. The bridge is on Center Street which runs up from the side of the Chuck Wagon to the Sleeping Rainbow area behind Torrey, this road was only just paved last year. Looking west from the bridge, Sand Creek is normally a trickle at this time of year, maybe a couple of feet across and an inch or two deep, even during the snow melt it rarely has more than a foot of water in it. The water went right up over the bridge Continued here