Klein Creek

The trail was mostly dry.

I could hear the water rushing as I approached the bridge. The noise was partly from a short waterfall at the point the creek disappeared from sight upstream from the bridge. I hadn't noticed it before, so it might be new.

The gravel lot I usually park in now has "not a parking lot" signs, so I parked at Kline Creek Farm up the trail.

There was some thin ice on the side streams. The trail leading to the creek (crushed limestone, I believe) was very soft and damp, I assume from melted snow.

The smaller streams on both sides were covered with ice near where they fed into the creek, which you may be able to see in the photo.

Most of the creek was flowing. More ice than last time covered the side areas, even some on the main body of the creek. There was some new driftwood in the middle of the creek with a couple of fishing lines attached.

A muskrat swam to the stream bank and cleaned itself for several minutes.

On the smaller streams that fed into the creek, there was some ice on the edges of the water.

I forgot to pour out a couple of vial-fulls to clean the vial this time before testing a sample.

On the test strip there was a small pale patch above the 3.6 line, but there seemed to be a gap under it, so I didn't count it in the reading.

Duplicate test strip: 3.4 Quantab = 119 PPM.

I smelled the same watery smell as last time. I heard cicadas.

I smelled a faint scent of flowers and whatever aroma I associate with fresh water.

This is a nice spot to hear the creek babbling. The water has just enough turbulence.

The ground was muddy.