Colorado 61 elk

[fullcry]

Anybody know what road/weather conditions are.How far the elk are into the rut?.

 

[BeanMan]

Muddy,Muddy, Muddy. This part of the state has seen a LOT of rains since the second week of September. Friday was probably the wettest day of the year.

The rut should be nearly over by now, Certainly at the tail end.

Beanman

 

[Paul_Crawford]

Fred, is there any snow on the Lone Cone? pc

 

[treedagain]

the bulls still should be talking quite a bit......

 

[BeanMan]

Paul,

We drove over Lizard Head last Thursday and back over Red Mountain last night (coming back from Albuquerque). The clouds were thick enough we never saw Lone Cone but the snowline was surprisingly high. I'm guessing that just the nipple had snow on Lone Cone. It is wet though, the Animas River in Durango looked like spring runoff season and all the creeks and gullies on Molas/Red Mountain were roaring. We've had almost 2.5" of rain in Palisade this last week and for an area that gets 8" annually that is a lot.

Cheers,

Fred

 

[TheKnack]

MUDDY!!!!!
Elk are still bugling but that will change soon except for the raghorns.
Best of luck,
Jerry

 

[fullcry]

Thanks for the update guys....

 

[dutch]

PC,
I'm sure the Cone got some snow last night as the snow level dropped down to probably about 8500 feet last night.

The animas really came up. Our normal spring runoff it peaks at around 4500 cfs, last Saturday it peaked at just under 8,000 cfs. Flooded some fields out in the valley and above Vallecito that creek took out a garage, some decks and other stuff. The garage had 2 snowmobiles and a range rover that was washed down the creek, they saved the car but lost all else.

 

[Paul_Crawford]

Thanks. I'll be out in a couple weeks!!! Yeah, baby!!! pc

 

[stinky]

I second the rain...It rained yesterday and today in Whitewater...and it is pretty dry here, the day before that, it rained all night. Bring your tire chains.