This was an attempt to hike in to a small headwater brook trout stream and film myself catching some brook trout that went bad. I underestimated the length of the hike by many miles. I thought it would be about a 12 mile hike however the trail does not exactly parallel the stream as it had appeared on a map. The round trip was more like 22 miles and I had to turn around about 2 miles from where the stream intersects the trail, having only a few hours of daylight and about a 9 mile hike back out to the trail head.
The stream has the orange stain due to acid mine runoff, that most likely was rausch creek above the limestone diversion wells that treat the polluted water of iron, sulfur and aluminum.
flytier37 6 days ago
Clay mud
2012icon 3 months ago