Well, gang, you know that it is getting closer to Extravaganza-time when (a) I begin spending a substantial portion of my weekends tying flies and (b) your Hostess With The Mostess begins packing her car for the annual drive from San Rafael to Extravaganza Headquarters…and that is just what is going-on on this end.
Early this Friday will find your Hostess and yours truly (along with E-13 co-mascots Sir the Cocker Spaniel and Ma’am the Black Lab) in the car journeying the 1100 miles to our second home in Clinton, Montana (located just 25 miles east of Missoula). This is the twelfth such annual journey/rite of passage for us, and one that is surrounded with Christmasesque excitement…the anticipation of all to shortly befall upon us is ever so near as is the thought (soon to become reality) of being able to spend so much quality time in God’s own backyard…ours and soon to be yours! As for your Hostess, well she will be resident in Montana until Labor Day and, as for me, well I remain a monthly commuter with a constant smile on my face!
And smile we all should for, as we soon begin our annual runoff watch, conditions continue to improve for E-13. With the recent late season snows, the snow pack continues to creep towards the 100% of 20 year seasonal average mark, witnesses: the Blackfoot River drainage is now at 102% with its equally important snow water equivalent (SWE) at exactly 100%; the Bitterroot Basis is now at 88% of normal with its SWE at 81%; and the Clark Fork watershed is currently tracking at 88% of normal with a SWE of 81%. Ironically, the lowest of the count is our home river of Rock Creek whose drainage is chirping along at 78% of normal with an equal 78% SWE—it is this later drainage that we will be tracking three times a week on our Flow Chart beginning on April 29th.
So things are creeping closer and closer, gang…as in just two months from today the Wonderful Ones will then be back home and Dem Tattoos will have just completed their second day of fishing, with the Marvelous Threes as the fisherfolk on deck!!
Now, THAT is what I am talkin’ about, all—and who said that Christmas comes only once a year!?!
Best to all in the eager anticipation of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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