{"id":557,"date":"2009-03-10T02:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2009-03-10T02:48:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:48:54","slug":"bitterroot-river-in-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/bitterroot-river-in-march-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitterroot River in early March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_twjVsg9p-90\/SbVWDzxA1-I\/AAAAAAAALAs\/uhovZ2ObnzM\/s1600-h\/IMG_7583.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[557]\" target=\"_blank\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311245958988748770\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px; cursor: hand; height: 267px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_twjVsg9p-90\/SbVWDzxA1-I\/AAAAAAAALAs\/uhovZ2ObnzM\/s400\/IMG_7583.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tucker Crossing on the Bitterroot River\" \/><\/a> It is March. The <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov\/data\/snow\/update\/mt.txt\" target=\"_blank\">snow water equivalent <\/a>and <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov\/data\/snow\/update\/mt.txt\" target=\"_blank\">total precipitaition <\/a>measurements for the Bitterroot (and much of Montana) are slightly below 100%. To the left is a photo taken March 2 at Tucker Crossing looking to the south. At that time, we were in a dry weather pattern. <a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_twjVsg9p-90\/SbVVprHl_VI\/AAAAAAAALAk\/XOtc6Ls3cvM\/s1600-h\/IMG_7578.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[557]\" target=\"_blank\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311245509990939986\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px; cursor: hand; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_twjVsg9p-90\/SbVVprHl_VI\/AAAAAAAALAk\/XOtc6Ls3cvM\/s320\/IMG_7578.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Teller Trailhead Sign\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe next two photos are from the same day and taken at Woodside Crossing looking north. As a side note, there is a great trail provided by Teller Wildlife Refuge. It is well used for exercise and nature walks. <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_twjVsg9p-90\/SbVVIOCKtAI\/AAAAAAAALAc\/vBQrpvJEfZ0\/s1600-h\/IMG_7580.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[557]\" target=\"_blank\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311244935247868930\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px; cursor: hand; height: 267px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_twjVsg9p-90\/SbVVIOCKtAI\/AAAAAAAALAc\/vBQrpvJEfZ0\/s400\/IMG_7580.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Woodside Crossing on the Bitterroot River\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_twjVsg9p-90\/SbVaw5FxlJI\/AAAAAAAALA8\/4yjqd6Vqock\/s1600-h\/IMG_8100.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[557]\" target=\"_blank\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311251131558630546\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 267px; cursor: hand; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_twjVsg9p-90\/SbVaw5FxlJI\/AAAAAAAALA8\/4yjqd6Vqock\/s400\/IMG_8100.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Snow in Gash Creek in the Bitterroot Mountains west of Victor\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The snowy photo was taken March 8th of Gash Creek in the Bitterroot Mountains west of Victor, MT while we were cross country skiing. We just had a few days of snow and cooler weather. It is wonderful to see more precipitation stored in the mountains for later run-off into our rivers and streams.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">To see <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov\/data\/snow\/update\/mt.txt\" target=\"_blank\">current snow\/precipitation data<\/a> and USGS current stream conditions for the rivers we fish, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/stream.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Wapiti Waters Local Stream Flow Links<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is March. The snow water equivalent and total precipitaition measurements for the Bitterroot (and much of Montana) are slightly below 100%. To the left is a photo taken March 2 at Tucker Crossing looking to the south. At that time, we were in a dry weather pattern. The next two photos are from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,167],"tags":[8,95,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}