Delayed snowmelt

In spite of an unprecedented 65-year record snow accumulation in town, there’s been a god watching upon this year’s run off, and so far, thanks to a disgustingly cold weather, all that snow has been very, very slow to disappear. Each morning our running route takes us alongside the McLeod Creek which at the moment is rather torrential, but can become quite tame and lazy the rest of the year. Several small, unspectacular bridges made with over-sized, cheap, corrugated pipe, channel the water at various road crossings along the way, and provide us with some good benchmark as to how high the water flow really is. Last Wednesday, it hit its peak with one of the three pipes filled to capacity under our street bridge. A visual clue to remember next time we reach what’s considered to be “flood level” in Park City!