Seems appropriate to resurrect this thread about the weather lately.
This year we are officially in the La Nina part of the Pacific Oscillation.
Maybe I should start a new thread - "CA Feast or Famine" since that is the long term pattern/climate here.
The recent rains tore through Pinns and did a bit of damage.
The west side was closed for a couple days while the water receded and while they cleared the Juniper Canyon trail of a downed tree. There is now a new balance beam across the creek for those inclined.
The water ripped down the center of the Juniper Canyon trail in the upper steep sections and flowed along it as a braided stream in the lower reaches. There were tell-tale piles of debris and new gullies where the water ripped down slopes at the first availability. It would have been wild to be there to observe - a few hours after the days-long deluge started.
Undermining in the lower reaches - freshly carved stream banks along the trail - since it served as a braid of the stream when the main channel couldn't handle all the flow.
The water drilled potholes over the steep drops
Here's a section of soil and rock fall near Pyramid Pinnacle. It shot across the trail and knocked a hole in the retaining wall. We did our best to pile things back up.
Bridge #2 got knocked off the foundation on the west side (view from The Shepherd).
