this spring in Castle Valley, Utah. Placer Creek is flowing all the way to its confluence with Castle Creek low in the valley, a once-a-decade occurrence, and in doing so is losing a large amount of its flow into the coarse, gravelly ground.
View upstream of Placer Creek and its distant headwaters in the Pinhook Valley, to the right (west) of Round Mountain.
View downstream of Placer Creek at the Buchanan Lane crossing.