Hey boaters-

I was wondering if any of you have stumbled across small orange mucky seeps in the North Cascades.  The one pictured is on Money Creek at low water, but I've seen them on the NF Sky downstream of the larger mineral spring at Garland, near Sloan Creek and on the NF Sauk.  I'm curious if there are some others out there that anyone's stumbled across.  Usually you'd miss them, unless out of your boat.

Full disclosure, I'm a geothermal geologist and curious about the hydrology at these features.

Thanks.

check river right toward the top of Boulder Drop.

We used to have these at my family's old house in Kent. They would flow off the hill into our pool. We always thought it was an iron deposit until someone built a house on the lot uphill of us. Turns out a farmer buried an old tractor, and the tractor  was rusting.

Money Creek got it's name for a reason.  I've actually heard it's the best creek to pan gold in the region.

I don't know about Washington so much(refering to various mineral deposits- we know there's plenty of Meth in Washington, and way too many bags of Cheetos

On the Yellowstone River we used to stop at an eddy on River right somewhere between the "Gardiner Stretch" and Yankee Jim Canyon and show the peeps the hot springs trickling in there- definitely lots or iron and sulfur deposits in that case. The spring wasn't big enough to soak in beyond warming your feet. I never let anyone out of my raft there anyway- the place deserves to be preserved. It resembled the formations found up at Mamoth Hotsprings, not far up the Gardiner River.

Plenty of Cheetos to be found in abundance there, too.

Cheetos. that must be it.

Bret- next time you head up to the Sky you ought to bring some  plain 'ol corn chip product with you and dip it into that stagnent orange pool and see if it tastes like Cheetoes.

There's gotta be some sort of Class Action suit we can muster against that damn methed out Cheetah! He must be stopped!

Jp, I'll get right on that.

In her defense we were all thinking it!