The Cold Shame of Winter Steelhead

Not for the faint of heart nor the weak of spirit

The Weather
In the Rockies it's snow. In the Northwest, it's rain. When it all breaks loose, as it did last week, I like to check the river levels online, scoping out the magnitude of the hydrological giddy-up that makes the region the special place it is. Example: Between the second and sixth of November, flows on the Queets River, on the West End of the Olympic Peninsula, increased from 600 to 115,000 CFS, the river rising, in the process, 20 vertical feet. These are not typos but, instead, the stuff of wild Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.