Lake Powell Rock Fall

Wow! I thought about that situation when we were there in September one year... still hot, so we spent the night in the shade of a cliff. Amazing that someone caught that with a camera.
 
Yes, That is very cool video. Good not to be too close under that. I have considered that when anchoring in the Broughtons. (I heard a slide one evening, but it was around a corner from where I was.

On one trip I say the result of a slide of about a half mile high and a 200 yards wide (again in the Broughtons in Mackenzie near Thompson Sound. There were trees, roots and all, branches and would pieces everywhere on the water. Everything from finger size branches up to 100 foot long tree logs.

It had happened the day before. Must have been a huge monster wave.

Harvey
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A number of years back a couple was killed when their boat was crushed by a bolder falling off the top of a cliff. Always look out for unstable cliffs, rocks. and never be in a canyon during a thunderstorm--even one miles away. The flash floods are also deadly. Powell is a beautiful place, but there are several deaths there each year.
 
Wow. Impressive! The few times I've been on Lake Powell, I never anchor or beach under rocks that look like they could fall off, or that look like water could cascade off from a flash flood! Colby
 
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