I’m doing some dreaming about Yellowstone hiking during this current “cooped-up” season. I asked you folks before about fording streams, and last year I got brave and started just splashing through. If anyone has any experience with fording rivers in Yellowstone, I’d appreciate your insight into how likely it should be to be able to ford these rivers during the first 10 days of August.
I am looking into some longer trips. Trips I’m considering require fording the Yellowstone River at Upper or Lower Ford at one end of the Trail Creek Trail, fording the Falls River heading to Union Falls, fording the Snake River by the south entrance, and possibly fording streams in Bechler Canyon.
I’m also thinking I’d like to go around Shoshone Lake. Last year I tried scheduling that trip at the very end of July, and had to cancel that trip because the backcountry situation report indicated that there was a mile of knee deep mud back by the geyser basin.
Does anybody have experience with these rivers, and a sense of whether these streams should be ok to plan fording? I realize every year’s different, but I’d appreciate any insight from those who have experience in these areas. Thank you.
Pringles
I am looking into some longer trips. Trips I’m considering require fording the Yellowstone River at Upper or Lower Ford at one end of the Trail Creek Trail, fording the Falls River heading to Union Falls, fording the Snake River by the south entrance, and possibly fording streams in Bechler Canyon.
I’m also thinking I’d like to go around Shoshone Lake. Last year I tried scheduling that trip at the very end of July, and had to cancel that trip because the backcountry situation report indicated that there was a mile of knee deep mud back by the geyser basin.
Does anybody have experience with these rivers, and a sense of whether these streams should be ok to plan fording? I realize every year’s different, but I’d appreciate any insight from those who have experience in these areas. Thank you.
Pringles