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The jacket of Above the Falls: the 1934 Starks plate of the Paiute cutthroat trout on cream paper, the title in capitals below it.

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Above the Falls

The East Fork of the Carson River and the Paiute cutthroat trout.

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Fig. 2. Snow depth at Poison Flat and river height below Markleeville, on one scale in feet Two instruments planted on one baseline and read against one axis in feet. Left, a graduated snow marker post: the red slash marks this winter’s peak depth, the dashed line the normal peak, and the drift at its foot the snow now. Right, a staff gauge in a brass bezel holding the river’s water in pale cobalt: the red slash marks the current height above the gauge datum. 024681012 ft ab E.CARSON

a · The snowPoison Flat · depth, feet

0.0 ft

on the ground nowmelted out — the river now runs on what’s leftno snow yet this winter

peak 5.0 ft ·

13 in of water · 76 % of normal

normal peak 5.5 ft

b · The riverBelow Markleeville · height, ft

2.18 ft

river height

50 ft³/s ·

Fig. 2This winter’s snow is next summer’s river.

Snow: Poison Flat, Silver King Creek, 7,900 ft — CDEC station PSN, depth in feet, its water in inches; measured since 1980. River: East Fork Carson below Markleeville, the falls’ own reach — USGS 10308200, height in feet above the gauge’s datum; measured since 1960.

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