Yesterday's Live Stream

Or, rawdogging nature

My favorite semi-local hiking spot is a trail in the Grouse Ridge area of the Sierra Nevada that runs up a little valley from Loney Meadow (elev. 5800) to Upper Rock Lake (elev. 6800). There’s an unnamed stream that runs along the valley, sometimes coming close to the trail. It’s a very live stream, with excellent throughput and no lags, except in the winter when it may slow down or even freeze. Here is what the stream looked like yesterday.

Horse crossing in Loney Meadow:

View from the footbridge. Upstream from the meadow, the stream gets very crowded with willows:

A couple of miles up the trail the stream is still very overgrown (at higher elevations, like around 8000 ft., the streams are more open):

On the return leg, I went around the other side of the meadow and crossed on this log bridge:

Back at the access road, the stream goes over a little cataract before ducking under the road in a big pipe: