Two years at Cleo's Bath

2011 was a banner year for water in California and in June of that year I took a hike in the Sierra up to a little place called Cleo's Bath. The water was ice cold, having just melted from snow not too many miles up stream.

It also wasn't safe to swim in since it was running too rapidly. I waded in at a shore just down stream and my feet quickly went numb. In 2012 I returned to the same spot at the same time and saw this:

That's the same tree in the foreground. You can see that flow is greatly reduced in 2012. That day we didn't mind too much because it led to great fun: