Sorry no photos, but I just spent a long week end in a not to far away similar altitude and can probably predict fairly closely what to expect over at Jack Creek.

The creeks are full, way past full in fact -- I haven't seen such good runoff for many years around here.

For those more familiar with the way things are around here, I was in Medicine Bow but nearer to Laramie Peak.

We went up Fall Creek starting at the Boy Scout Camp, over the saddle and down Ashenfeilder, Whiskey, Roaring Forks, and Horseshoe creeks and came out at lower Horseshoe where my truck was parked. The last time I tried that trip I was 15 years younger and 50 lbs lighter uggg. I got blisters on top of blisters and am rubber legged for a few days now.

The fishing wasn't too bad, considering the amount of runoff and the pine needle tea -- those fish had millions of gallons to hide in, but we all caught our share and let them go except for a few dinner ones. 10"- 17" rainbows, browns and brookies. Could of caught them all day long if we wouldn't of had to been hiking most of the days.

There is still snow high up under the trees but but not enough to be a problem -- we did get in a bind in a pine beatle/burn/blow down that lasted several miles. More like constant corral climbing than hiking, and when we got to Horseshoe there was way too much water to cross whereever you wanted -- so everytime a cliff came to the edge of the water (many times), we had to go up and around, because I don't swim whitewater LOL. So what should of been about a 14 mile hike probably turned into 28 miles and a bunch of it was rock climbing.

the weather was awesome though -- hoodies where plenty and too much at times -- we did get a few little showers and walked them off, but the moisture on the low growth got us wetter than what was coming out of the sky -- we were soaked from the knees down most of the time, and there is plenty of mud around to deal with too.

BTW,
Elkhunter,

I had heard from you that lower Horseshoe was closed to camping -- Amanda, my daughter from Glendo also confirmed this and said they were run off there too. So I never planned to camp there anyway was just parking a truck to hike out to, but there were campers at all the places along there that spent the whole weekend?

Did they change their tune or what, do you know? Maybe somebody, or lots of somebodies, got a message to the state that state land doesn't belong to people in state of Wyoming trucks, but to state of Wyoming Citizens? Have you heard more about this?


Jacques

Too many people buy stuff they don't want, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like!