Episode 79: Mountain Stream On A Summer Afternoon

This was recorded at a spring fed mountain stream on a summer afternoon in the Trinity Mountains, a subrange of the Klamath Mountains, in Siskiyou County, California. It was a hot, sunny, and breezy day, with birds singing and bumblebees and other flying insects buzzing around in the flowers and greenery which lined the banks of the stream.

It has been an abnormally dry year in this part of California, much of the west coast really, with a snowpack which has long since melted and temperatures far above average. The area in which I recorded this is normally gushing snowmelt this early in the summer, but many of the springs and streams which are usually swiftly flowing have already dried up, and the flow of water now looks more like it should in the fall. I can only hope that we receive a much deeper snowpack next winter to help alleviate this ongoing drought.

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