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Water flowing at 23rd SB
#48089 08/12/16 10:38 AM
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Is there water flowing at the 23rd Switchback?

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Snacking Bear #48104 08/13/16 09:21 PM
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yes, water is flowing, enough to easily collect. Seemed like a much better spot that the lake by Trail camp, which seemed a bit stagnant.

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Snacking Bear #48121 08/16/16 09:37 AM
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Early in the morning that spring can be frozen. We always took water from the Trail Camp pond. You can't go to the summit dry and you don't want to backtrack. However, the water was fabulous on the way down in the afternoon.

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Snacking Bear #48123 08/16/16 10:43 PM
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I was up there on 8/14 and I do remember seeing more water flowing later in the afternoon than in the morning.

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This is because it is not a spring: it is daily melt from the snowfield directly above the trail, but out of view. It appears to be be a spring because it runs under the talus, but it flows only on the surface. I drink everything completely unfiltered, so this makes no difference to me, but for thosewho might differentiate between surface water and a spring: this is not a spring.


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