Salmon

Locals crew on Butler Run on a sunny January afternoon. We were delayed by a no-show member of the crew and could've gotten on a couple hours earlier when there would've been more direct sunlight in the canyon. After the parade of storms, sun sounded nice, but truth is there is never a time when this entire canyon is shade-free in the heart of winter.

The river was on a long, slow drop from its higher levels resulting from the early January atmospheric river rain storms. For all the hype in the news, in this part of California the storms were just typical of a good old-fashioned wet winter. With plenty of time for the river to green up as it dropped, the Salmon was in its gorgeous translucent green phase that it gets mid-winter.