I got high this weekend.....

[AirInHere]

No its not what you think.

I went to Bear River Reservoir this weekend and did some diving with a bunch of people from my shop
(Elk Grove Sports Chalet) Good group of people and an interesting place to go dive.
But the rules are a "little" different for diving at altitude.

Of course I took a bunch of video clips and a couple of decent pictures.
And I love forcing them on you all, so here ya go.

Diving Videos

 

[babyjoe75]

how was the diving? was this a lake? what did you see?
i'll have to check out the videos when i get home this evening.
joe

 

[AirInHere]

Lower Bear River Reservoir is a watershed lake at about 6000ft elevation.
Take hwy 88 just a little east of Jackson.

Diving was great. Water was cold (43F below 30ft).
Visibility was about twenty or thirty feet depending on where you were.
But it was almost eerie diving in the lake.

The only living thing I saw was crayfish (crawdads) and a handful of small fish that
darted underneath rocks. Nothing swimming around, no fish bigger than my pinky finger
(and those were right at the waters edge).

Dead crayfish everywhere.

And a layer of silt covering everything.

The crayfish would leave strange little trails in the silt that went fron the deep water
beyond recreational limits up into the shallows and then the trails would circle around
all the big rocks. Every once in a while the crayfish would run across one another and fight.

Did I mention how many dead crayfish there were?

I guess there was almost nothing else for them to eat.

So they turned on each other.

It was very different than I expected.