For the third time in the past five years the water from Gunlock Reservoir has cascaded over the dam and spilled onto the cliffside rocks.
Nearby, a woman and a boy leapt over a smaller waterfall, where a single misstep could have sent them tumbling over the cliff and onto the boulders below. Up the trail, a man perched precariously on a rock outcropping over the roaring falls. Visitors traverse around Gunlock Falls northwest of St. George, Monday, March 20, 2023, after the Gunlock Reservoir overflowed.
“We tried but couldn’t get to him that day,” Cashin recalled. “The next morning we brought out some inmates and sandbagged off the main flow [of the water] so we could get divers in there to recover his body.” With the record snowpack in Utah’s mountains, the flows at the falls this spring could become much stronger and the risks to visitors much worse. As of Wednesday,The Snow Survey is part of the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Where does 302% reference come from? It’s not from the cited data (graphic below).
Those stunning red rocks 🤩