Re: Lake Mead - Beautiful Day!
Virgin Basin was glass. It was strange there was the slightest ripple or cat's paw. It almost looked like vibration on the water, but there was no discernable breeze.
It is very often like that. I have always thought it was strange too, but if you look at the way the wind is funnelled through The Narrows, once it opens into the basin, poof, there is nowhere and everywhere for that wind to go so it just goes dead. At least that's my story . . .
My favorite time out there is the morning after a big south blow . . . It ends up with short, slow, long swells but glass. A lot of fun in anything that planes.
Hardly anyone on the water outside of Boulder Basin.
Also, typical. And IMHO better than Powell in that regard. I generally prefer Powell, but it's more river channel shape forces everyone into the same spots, also there is nowhere with the big openness of the Virgin Basin. That place is simply awesome.
Next year I'd like to go past Temple Bar to Gregg Wash/Basin? if its still navigable.
You'll have no problem getting up there and all the way to Sandy Point. It also glasses off most evenings. Same kind of thing with the wind blowing through Virgin Canyon, it'll be rough and then you come out into Gregg and "poof" . . . gone.
This is looking upriver from Sandy Point in August of '04. The lake was at 1125' which is only 20 feet higher than today. There's probably 20 feet under the tubes . . .
I saw someone else mention the nice people at Temple Bar Marina. I agree, very friendly atmosphere there. May need to rent a cabin sometime and use it as a base for a few days.
Excellent plan and we have done it a couple of times. Next time I am going to launch at Hemenway and cruise to Temple Bar and stay, as opposed to dragging the trailer out there . . .
You can tell I am obsessed with Mead . . .
