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Stillaguamish Flowing With Power

Storms and rain have been a feature of the fall of 2021 in the Pacific Northwest.  I was out with a buddy riding up the Centennial Trail in Snohomish County.  Part of the trail, north of Arlington, takes you across an old rail bridge over the Stillaguamish River.  The north and south forks of the river come together at this location and the combined river heads under the bridge and off towards Puget Sound.

The rivers were in flood and the amount of debris built up against the bridge was indicative of just how much damage the rivers had done on the local area.  With two strong flows of water, the area where they came together was swirling with some violence.  Whirlpools were popping up and heading downstream.  Below the bridge, you could see upswellings of water from the lower levels and it looked like the sort of thing that would be very dangerous to find yourself in.  The video I shot doesn’t really do it justice but you might get some sort of impression of how active it was.