Thought I would provide a link to the remote Stanley Lake area of Idaho where yesterdays magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit.
I have been to this area many times in the past and it is spectacular in person.
The link I am providing shows a few pictures of Stanley lake and McGown peak across the way.
If you are ever in central Idaho be sure to stop by both Stanley Lake and Stanley (the town).
Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_LakeAgain I hope no one was hurt in this large quake.
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VarmintGuy
Totally unaware that there was an earthquake in Idaho.
Google Sawtooth Wilderness Area. The mountains are spectacular. Stanley Lake is just outside it and McGowen Peak is inside of it.
A couple photos stolen from the web:
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Thank you V-G, I hadn’t heard.
Totally unaware that there was an earthquake in Idaho.
Yeah, it a total shame nobody keeps us informed about such things here at the Fire.
What else are we missin'?
Totally unaware that there was an earthquake in Idaho.
Yeah, it a total shame nobody keeps us informed about such things here at the Fire.
What else are we missin'?
Apparently there's some jackwagon in Europe, threatening to invade Poland or something. Someone should do something about this Hitler guy....
I think VG has also never heard of George Thorogood.
That’s just un-American
SMH, if Roy Cohn was still around, we could throw him a piece of meat.
Deep, I know
OMG!!!!!! Another one!!!!!!
RUN FOREST RUN!!!!!!!
I felt the earth move!!! About 200-miles away.
Rock Chuck: Thanks for posting the wonderful pictures from the area of that quake!
I need to spend more time over that'away.
The scenery from that part of the country makes it well worth the drive.
Thanks again.
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VarmintGuy
CraigD: Now that is funny (unlike the worthless undecipherable crap alpo and cumload insist on offloading hereabouts!).
Glad you are safe.
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VarmintGuy
Google Sawtooth Wilderness Area. The mountains are spectacular. Stanley Lake is just outside it and McGowen Peak is inside of it.
A couple photos stolen from the web:
Beautiful!!
Been in that country many times. Rafting and bear hunting.
Wonder if any slides made it to the river. This rapid is called "Earthquake Rock" after a slide that happened in the Chalis quake.
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Spent a month there in 82 hiking and climbing and fishing .
It was the end of a three month bicycle trip.
Probably my favorite place to hike!
Thought I would provide a link to the remote Stanley Lake area of Idaho where yesterdays magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit.
I have been to this area many times in the past and it is spectacular in person.
The link I am providing shows a few pictures of Stanley lake and McGown peak across the way.
If you are ever in central Idaho be sure to stop by both Stanley Lake and Stanley (the town).
Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_LakeAgain I hope no one was hurt in this large quake.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
Remote means different things to different people, Stanley lake can be driven to on pavement, and Stanley itself can be reached by paved highways from three different directions so neither are what can be called remote unless being over a hundred miles from the nearest Walmart is the criteria for remote. The area behind the lake is part of the Sawtooth wilderness area but Stanley lake itself is by no means remote.
Here is link to the actual epicenter of the quake - it is north of Cape Horn and east of Bear Valley, lots of rugged country back in there. I thought it was ironic that the epicenter was located on Shake Creek. The type of country the quake epicenter was located in are not Sawtooth type mountains rather they are just typical steep western mountains with the jagged type peaks that make up the Sawtooths.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70008jr5/mapA link to a picture of the country in the vicinity of the epicenter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_Mountain_(Idaho)
drover
Elk Mountain Loop is a fun Mtn. Bike loop if you ride bikes. You start right at the Stanley Lake Trailhead work your way up a road on the North side of the lake for a few miles then hit a single track that leads to a giant meadow (Elk Meadows) and follow that down several miles before working back to the road. Fun loop. You do need to be in decent shape. Will be interesting to see if anything changed next time I get to ride it.
My 1st wolf hunt was based in Stanley for 2 weeks. Spectacular area w/ lots of bears and in Oct. very few people. The country between Stanley and Challis is driveable on a FS 2 track and gives access to some wild country. We have been back many times.
mike r
I love that country..I lived in the Deadwood area for two seasons logging..Could come in three ways..Capehorn/Clear creek and from Landmark...Scott mountain was out for our traffic...I took my honeymoon back in there..Awesome country but to many people any more for me..There are tons of hot springs in the area..Go figure..LOL
I was sleeping, didn't feel it here. But friends said it felt like the wind was shaking their truck who were out and about.
Beautiful country there.
Might be the only good thing about our current situation is the non-residents are fewer here, I have to assume it's the same over there. Fuggin snowbirds and warm weather ....... can stay in their winter quarters and count their TP rolls. If in Tejas, that'd be uno, dos, tres, .....
I love that country..I lived in the Deadwood area for two seasons logging..Could come in three ways..Capehorn/Clear creek and from Landmark...Scott mountain was out for our traffic...I took my honeymoon back in there..Awesome country but to many people any more for me..There are tons of hot springs in the area..Go figure..LOL
Idaho has lots of hot springs. A while back I thought I'd get a book I'd heard about listing all the springs in Idaho, titled "Complete Guide to Idaho Hot Springs". I found it on Amazon...
$145...and that's for a used paperback. I declined. There are lots of websites with the same info.
Quakes can have some unexpected results. Some friends of our have a little land 20 miles west of Twin Falls. After the Borah quake, they had to revise their irrigation procedures. The slope of the land had changed just enough to screw up the water flows. It was all running the wrong way. And that was 80 to 100 miles from the quake.
One of my field sites is about 5 miles from the epicenter. I was about 75 miles away when the quake hit but didn’t feel a thing. I was driving at the time, apparently
The spring we used to raise fish on south of Challis was bumped by the 83 Borah quake from a little 2 CFS spring to nothing for a few days, and then came back at over 30 CFS. It’s been gradually declining ever since down to about 9 CFS last I heard. Wonder what happened this time?
Hunted elk around Challis a couple times. Nice country, I hear from family there that the elk herds are hurting, because of the wolves. Stanley is a nice area, great fly fishing in that area!
Hunted elk around Challis a couple times. Nice country, I hear from family there that the elk herds are hurting, because of the wolves. Stanley is a nice area, great fly fishing in that area!
My personal opinion from my observations, no scientific backing...I think the elk have moved farther south into 48, 49, and 50. Those units have surplus cows and tags are easy to get, some are OTC. There's a lot of competition for bull tags, though. There are wolves there but not in the numbers that you find farther north.
Forest Service just posted effects of the quake on the Middle Fork.
Middle Fork of the Salmon River Update: After the magnitude 6.5 earthquake near Shake Creek on the evening of Tuesday March 31, the Forest has had several reports on conditions on the Middle Fork Salmon River.
• Graphs from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Current Water Data for Idaho for Streamflow website, water levels at the USGS 13309220 MF SALMON RIVER AT MF LODGE NR YELLOW PINE ID station was flowing at approximately 520 cubic feet per second at the time of the earthquake. The flow dropped to approximately 308 cfs by mid-day on April 1, 2020 and then increased to approximately 712 cfs by 6:00 a.m. on April 2, 2020. Currently, the water level has begun to drop again, with the most current value of approximately 634 cfs as of 9:45 am on April 2.
• Recent seismic activity has caused a debris and rock slides along the upper reaches of the Middle Fork of the Salmon River:
o Trees and debris that may be hazardous have likely entered the river system as a result of the recent seismic activity. We have a report of a single tree is laying 90 degrees to the river just upstream from Pistol Rapids near Lake Creek to the river. This tree is almost all the way across the river. Observers indicate the tree should move with high water.
o Below Boundary Creek Boat Launch, we have reports of multiple small avalanches and rock slides which have not blocked the river.
o Above Boundary Creek Boat Launch to the to the headwaters where Marsh Creek and Bear Valley Creek converge to form the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, there are multiple large avalanches and debris slides which have caused blockages of the river. A couple of these slides have damned up the river but the river is either starting to flow around or under the slides.
The Forest is continuing to coordinating with other agencies on the conditions along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and is continuing to investigate.
The river is currently closed to boating from Dagger Falls to the confluence with the main Salmon River.
Love the Middle Fork area. I worked there in the summers of 1962, 1963 and 1964, and have been back twice.
Lochsa: Well thankfully you were not hit by a falling rock or hurt.
I almost forgot - as I am sitting here in my office/library/computer room looking down on me is a "moody" late afternoon picture I took and had enlarged of "Stanley Lake"!
It is one of my all time favorite pictures and I took it probably 35 years ago with my Nikkormat EL.
Again glad YOU weren't hurt/scared.
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VarmintGuy
Steve: Thank you very much for that update - I appreciate it.
I have been on two long term jet boat ventures on the Salmon River - one was a early summer shed horn collecting venture (six days IIRC) and the other was a week long spring Bear Hunting trip on which we did a lot of fishing (I caught and released a 100 pound Sturgeon!).
That is stunningly beautiful country and I wish I could do more over that'away.
Thanks again.
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VarmintGuy
Dutch: That is interesting about the stopping then the ebb and flow of your spring.
For many years I used to back pack archery Hunt Elk in the Anaconda/Pintlar (old spelling!) Wilderness and my partner and I became dependent on a "spring" that flowed out of a granite wall.
The spring flowed at about a gallon a minute and was crystal clear once we gathered it.
We used it maybe 12 years or so.
Then the fall after a summer earthquake centered about 30 air miles east of "my" spring it did not flow that year!
Put a burden on us as we had quit bringing water purifying gear with us!
That was the last year I tried to use that "spring" - I wonder if it has resumed its flow.
That spring is about 5 miles from the trailhead and the Wolves have decimated the Elk in that area so I probably won't ever know if my spring has come back.
Nature amazes me, so often.
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VarmintGuy
I checked with the guy that’s running it today, and the spring is up about 3 CFS, or about 25% or so. He was out on the farm, but didn’t notice the quake.
I rarely notice tremors at my farm, either. I wonder if there’s something specific about the geology around warm springs that reduces the surface movement?
This FB post has some aerial photos of the slides on the Middle Fork. Blocked the river for a time.
https://www.facebook.com/wildernessriver/posts/10163619938850495
Steve: Thanks for the link to those pictures - again Mother Nature is amazing.
Thankfully another "Quake Lake" was not formed by those landslides!
Amazing.
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VarmintGuy
I wonder if that slide was rocks or just snow that the river was able to melt.
Google Sawtooth Wilderness Area. The mountains are spectacular. Stanley Lake is just outside it and McGowen Peak is inside of it.
This scene (thanks for the photos) looks a lot like - and reminds me of - Alice Lake, one of the many such lakes we have encountered up in the Sawtooth Range. Our family and another hiked up from Petit Lake at lower elevation on the road south from Stanley and encountered Alice Lake after an hour or so. Just beautiful, pristine, snow on the sides in August - and quickly caught some trout to cook for lunch. We wandered the trails up in there and found two or three others in the area - all just as nice. We did not see one other soul on those trails - was back in 1980. Thanks again.