NF Stilly slide

Some of the pics online that people are ooohing and aaahing about are actually the old slide on the other side of the river.

 

Very sad.

The NF just can't catch a break.

 

This is so sad! Prayers and thoughts out to the families.
Trying to think of the area as I haven't fished the area in a few years.
Was this a result of clear cuts and rampant logging below C-post road!

 

and a ton of rain in march, but yee mother nature usually wins.

 

Anyone have any idea how or if this will effect chum fry escapement?

 

Andrew,
What Chum?
I haven't seen many Chum in recent years on the NF.

 

I was under the impression there was a decent chum run on that river. It may be that I heard that years ago from someone. Isn't there a tribal hatchery there too? Just remember something about the still having chum and silvers but I've never fished it so I might very well be wrong. Was just curious if there will be any fisheries impact from the slide that would hurt future returns.

 

They'll be fine. Salmon have been surviving natural disasters worse than this for thousands of years.

 

I was completely turned around on this. I originally thought the slide occurred on the south side of the river, crossing the highway and then continuing to the river. Looks like the old slide on the north side completely cut loose and made it all the way to the highway. Unreal!

 

Yes it looks like the Hazel slide (old timers sometimes refer it as the Halterman slide) let loose again.

The Hazel slide is a area of natural instability whose activity is believe to be influence by river action at its toe and logging upslope. This the third time since the early 1950s that a major slide at that location has completely dammed the river. The second event was in 1967 where the river was temporarily dammed and the river was forced to a historic slide channel on the south side. In recent years that have lesser but significant events in 1988 and 2006 where the river was partially dammed. I recall a study looking at the slide some 15 years ago (don't remember the year) determined that the slide would remain active and it was likely just a matter of time until another major event occurred with no way of predicting when that might be though a period of exception rainfall might be a triggering event. At the time it was thought that the most likely worst case the river would be dammed and the land flow would extend well to the south though as I recall was not expected to come close to hwy 530.

Thoughts and payers to the victims and their families.

Curt

 

WOW , and prayers to all involved, watching it on the news down here in Oregon

 

All over the front page of the Sea Times this morning. Crazy.

 

Yes, this is horrible. This thread helped me to figure out where it the impacted area is. Thanks!

Imagine an emergency worker hiking in to deal with the remnants of this slide, all while hearing cries of help from trapped victims. Photos I have seen of he area look like a total mess. Mud and trees everywhere. Where do you start?

And then this wall of water has to be building up behind you, waiting to blow through.

Yes, prayers to the victims and responders.

 

Hopefully the river can begin cutting a new channel and start releasing the energy slow enough to avoid a sudden release. What areas downstream are at most risk (sorry, south-ender here that does not know that area very well)? Let's all hope for the best.

 

I had to look at the pictures several times to really tell where the slide happened. I haven't been near there in about 8 years or so. It takes a little kick to get my memory going. I first thought that the south side slid. But looking again I seen it was the other side of the river.

This ought to make the river a lake around the bend.