When John C Fremont “discovered” the Mojave River, he named it the Inconstant River after its habit of trickling for a few miles in a rocky narrows in what’s now Victorville, and again in Afton Canyon, and elsewhere and between running merely as a vague tendency toward dampness deep in a hundred-mile riverbed full of sand.

Every once in a while, though, the river flows. I stood six years ago by its banks where it flows through Barstow and watched waves riffle.

Shaun, from over at the fine Mojave Desert Blog, sent along a photo of the river this morning taken in Victorville.

There has been more rain since.

I have a kayak in my storage locker in Barstow. Hmmm.

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   phyte club katie 2011 01 01 at 8:47:38 pm

   Do it! A perfect way to ring in the New Year….