[at-l] 2003 Rain Year

[jplynch at crosslink.net (Jim Lynch)]

Hi, Little help on vernacular please
what's a 'wave train'?
what's a 'strainer'?
Thanks!!
(sorry to be asking newbie-type questions!)

Steve Landis wrote:
> The Trail near the Scott Farm at the bridge is under water. The 
> Conodoquinet Creek is over it's banks and we are expecting a 
> thunderstorm tonight.  While scouting the creek for a possible paddle 
> today ran into a couple of day hikers there who were hiking from Boiling 
> Springs to Wertzville Road who had to bushwhack around the flooding.  I 
> ended up doing a short paddle on Mountain Creek which is running at 
> Class III today but had to cut it short because I was alone and the wave 
> train going thru Mt Holly Springs was full of strainers and it just 
> wasn't safe.
> 
> Steve
James P. ('Jim') Lynch
jplynch@crosslink.net