By Jim Stanford on June 26, 2011
Road washed out near confluence of Soda Butte Creek and Lamar River.
Runoff on the Snake River, drawn out by cold weather and diminished by dam control, may or may not have peaked this weekend.
But in Yellowstone National Park, rivers are running wild. This is the confluence of Soda Butte Creek and the Lamar River, in the park’s northeast corner.
Photographer Greg Winston has more images on his blog. The road, which runs from Tower Junction to the northeast entrance, has been closed since Friday.
The Snake River above Alpine hit nearly 25,000 cubic feet per second Saturday. If not for the dam, the flow of the river would have exceeded 36,000 cfs, with inflow to Jackson Lake at more than 13,000 cfs.
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Another good pic here:
http://www.nps.gov/yell/parknews/images/IMG_0008-Equipment-working-on-Lamar-Valley-road-washout-by-Bob-Greenburg.jpg
Greg reports that YNP had six dump trucks running fill to the site Sunday, and both streams were receding, slowly.
You should see the East Fork, Big Sandy and Green Rivers flowing higher then I have ever seen.