Unfortunately, the cold weather over the past week or so has delayed the runoff, and the river level at Livingston has declined from a high of nearly 15,000cfs at mid-week to just over 9,000cfs this morning. It almost looks fishable right now.

However, it's snowing outside right now at our place near Emigrant, and the mountains were white down to about 5,500' elevation as the result of more snow at the higher elevations last night.

The 24 snow guages that comprise the Upper Yellowstone Watershed (everything upstream from Livingston) are now reported at 187% of average for this date, and when all that snow begins to melt again in ernest, watch out!