Berryessa Glory Hole Pics

[LakesOnly]

:DWHASSUP BABYYYYYY!:D
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole_1A-med.jpg
This was the most overspill I've seen in years!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glroy_Hole1-med.jpg
The concrete structure is barely visible underwater. It may not look like it in the photo, but the water is about five feet over the concrete. This lake is spilling over big time!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
Here's a shot of the other side of the dam at the hydroelectric power station. Look at the pick-up truck for scale:
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Dam1-med.jpg
Look at the blast from that nozzle!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Dam2-med.jpg
Don't fall in the 'Hole; you'll come out the other side as minced meat.
LO

[Scream]

That's the biggest damn pool skimmer I've ever seen. and would you look at that rooster tail...

[Outnumbered]

I'm gonna have nightmares now. That thing is friggin scary:eek:

[Rexone]

Originally posted by LakesOnly
:DWHASSUP BABYYYYYY!:D
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole_1A-med.jpg
This was the most overspill I've seen in years!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glroy_Hole1-med.jpg
The concrete structure is barely visible underwater. It may not look like it in the photo, but the water is about five feet over the concrete. This lake is spilling over big time!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
Here's a shot of the other side of the dam at the hydroelectric power station. Look at the pick-up truck for scale:
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Dam1-med.jpg
Look at the blast from that nozzle!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Dam2-med.jpg
Don't fall in the 'Hole; you'll come out the other side as minced meat.
LO
That's bad ass. that nozzle needs a place diverter though
That looks like a person standing right next to the nozzle. :eek:
I wonder if they can raise and lower that concrete intake or if its just a permanently fixed height?

[Tom Brown]

LMAO! :D :D :D

[Tom Brown]

I'll bet they could improve the hydro output with one of those Tornado Fuel Savers.

[LUVNLIFE]

Those are cool pictures. Has any one ever ened up checking out that glory hole to close. It doesn't seem like there is to much protection around it.

[JetBoatRich]

Originally posted by LUVNLIFE
Those are cool pictures. Has any one ever ened up checking out that glory hole to close. It doesn't seem like there is to much protection around it.
Don't think I would to be to close:o bad time for engine failure:mad:

[Rexone]

I heard one guy got too close once
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/732hoss3.jpg

[ACCEPTENCE]

Kinda green lookin but still a good lookin lake.
I've heard there is old town in tact under water, somewhere near a bridge that occasionaly shows when the water is down???
Any truth to this.
It would be well worth the trip to scuba dive on it if it's true.
Note to self: No dive-dive near the hole!!!

[Outnumbered]

Originally posted by Rexone
I heard one guy got too close once
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/732hoss3.jpg
LMAO:D

[spectratoad]

Can you picture the roostertail on that bad boy. That is pretty scary.:eek:

[058]

Originally posted by ACCEPTENCE
Kinda green lookin but still a good lookin lake.
I've heard there is old town in tact under water, somewhere near a bridge that occasionaly shows when the water is down???
Any truth to this.
It would be well worth the trip to scuba dive on it if it's true.
Note to self: No dive-dive near the hole!!! Greg, The town at the bottom of Berryessa was called Montecello. During the drought in the mid 90s and the lake was 79' down what was left of the town was exposed. There is just building foundations and a couple of bridges left, any building material that could float was removed before the lake filled. In the early days of Berryessa tree trunks from orchards floated to the surface and did alot of damage to passing boats, I guess it was too much trouble to dig up all the tree trunks.

[Her454]

Originally posted by ACCEPTENCE
Kinda green lookin but still a good lookin lake.
I've heard there is old town in tact under water, somewhere near a bridge that occasionaly shows when the water is down???
Any truth to this.
It would be well worth the trip to scuba dive on it if it's true.
Note to self: No dive-dive near the hole!!!
Greg, New Melones Res is the same way, old town and old stamp mill, lots of old foundations still there under the Bridge toward Angels Camp. Back in 92 (I think) lake was really low and I got an old map and we went riding quads out there and checking out the old stuff, it was pretty cool to compare the pics to what it used to be.

[78Eliminator]

If there was no turbine at the bottom, that would be one hell of a ride!!!!!!

[LakesOnly]

Originally posted by Rexone
I wonder if they can raise and lower that concrete intake or if its just a permanently fixed height?
The Glory Hole concrete structure is fixed and essentially serves at the spillway.
LO

[LakesOnly]

Originally posted by LUVNLIFE
Those are cool pictures. Has any one ever ened up checking out that glory hole to close. It doesn't seem like there is to much protection around it.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
The orange string of floatation devices in the left of the photo is all there is for protection. My friend has had his boat up to that point; boat drifted in the direction of the Glory Hole. He got the heebie-jeebies, started his boat and punched it outta there.
LO

[Danhercules]

Originally posted by LakesOnly
:DWHASSUP BABYYYYYY!:D
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
LO
I'd hit that!!!! Balls deep!!!!!!:D :D

[LakesOnly]

Originally posted by Rexone
I heard one guy got too close once
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/732hoss3.jpg
Rexone, this is indeed funny.
And just to let everyone know (in case the above pic thorws anybody off), the Glory Hole is about 30-feet in diameter and could swallow a boat.
LO

[LakesOnly]

Oh, one more thing:
talked to my Frind Toby last night. Toby has a trailer at Monticello Resort. Lake level is so overfilled that they had to pull the trailer forward and up to the road in the resort. His deck was in water and the water came up to the road.:D
LO

[Robbie Racer]

Awesome pictures. Thanks for posting them. I can't wait to do some boating there this summer. Keith

[Rock-it man]

After seing those pics dont know if I want to go there or not !!!! those are FREEKEEEEEEEEEEE pics. Is there a fence around that HOLE !!!!! if not I cant believe that CALIFORNIA with all the Zelots down there would not have closed off that hole !!! by now !!!

[Kwicherbichen]

Every time I see pics of that thing I get the heebie jeebies. Nothing worse than a scary hole :eek:

[gnarley]

Originally posted by Rock-it man
After seing those pics dont know if I want to go there or not !!!! those are FREEKEEEEEEEEEEE pics. Is there a fence around that HOLE !!!!! if not I cant believe that CALIFORNIA with all the Zelots down there would not have closed off that hole !!! by now !!!
There's no law against having them yet. The tree huggers probably want them Zelots thinking it'll swallow all the boaters who get to close, so if it works to their advantage they won't have'em outlawed.

[ChumpChange]

I found them. I found them.

[Desert Rat]

It looks like another nozzle to the right sticking out of the concrete structure
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Dam2-med.jpg

[MOBrien]

damn hole kinda reminds me of a nasty biatch I fell into one time way back when...... :hammerhea .......bad flashback. Sheesh, what was I thinkin. Oh wait, that's right I wasn't. I's a dit brunk. :rolleyes:
YiYiYiYiYiiiiiiiiiiikkkkes! :crossx:

[dave186]

we have a lake with a glory hole. Owyhee Res. you can see the hole towards the right side. water level has been so low I dont even remember the last time it was spilling.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/dave186/IM000793.jpg

[BarryMac]

http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
This one gave me the creeps, just think if you got sucked into the mother, that would be some scary shit right there...

[NashvilleBound]

It would be cool to throw a large beach ball or basketball into it and see how hard it comes firing out the nozel end.....

[LakesOnly]

It looks like another nozzle to the right sticking out of the concrete structure
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Dam2-med.jpg
That nozze to the right is for when the water runs though the hydro-electric generators in the structure.
LO

[LakesOnly]

http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
This one gave me the creeps, just think if you got sucked into the mother, that would be some scary shit right there...
Water depth at the dam is 440 feet when the lake is at capacity, so I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that's a 400-foot drop from this point.
LO

[BLEWBAYOU1]

Kinda green lookin but still a good lookin lake.
I've heard there is old town in tact under water, somewhere near a bridge that occasionaly shows when the water is down???
Any truth to this.
It would be well worth the trip to scuba dive on it if it's true.
Note to self: No dive-dive near the hole!!!
It is true about the old town of Monticello. All that is left are the foundations. The leveled all the building when they built the lake back in the late 50's.I think it was 57 or 58. My dad grew up in Napa and he use to party there when he was in high school. When the water is real low there are a few old bridges that are still intact. The foundations are visible across the lake from Berryessa Marina and Rancho Monticello resort when the water is clear.
Those pictures were taken last year or the year before that. I looked at the Glory hole this morning and it is at 86% capacity and 11'.97 below the rim of the glory hole. Nobody has ever been sucked in but there was a woman that commited suicide by jumping down the hole. All the water that goes down the Hole drops 200' then 90s through the Hydro electric generater, so you can imagine what you would look like after that.Not a pretty sight. That is the nosel you see in the pic. :squiggle:
Brian

[Tequila-John]

:DWHASSUP BABYYYYYY!:D
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole_1A-med.jpg
This was the most overspill I've seen in years!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glroy_Hole1-med.jpg
The concrete structure is barely visible underwater. It may not look like it in the photo, but the water is about five feet over the concrete. This lake is spilling over big time!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
Here's a shot of the other side of the dam at the hydroelectric power station. Look at the pick-up truck for scale:
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Dam1-med.jpg
Look at the blast from that nozzle!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Dam2-med.jpg
Don't fall in the 'Hole; you'll come out the other side as minced meat.
LO
Where is that at?

[Rock-it man]

Thats one BAD HOLE !!!!!

[1Bahnerjet]

think I've been to Berryessa for the LAST time...
DAMN thats the stuff of NIGHTMARES.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg

[UnionJack]

That is so bitch, back to football

[diggler]

I've been swimming by those orange floaty things last summer when the lake was low. I had the heebie jeebies just knowing it was over 200feet and I was treading water. :sqeyes:

[Phat Matt]

http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
I think we should get on some rafts and see who could get the closest. Who ever is the furthest from the hole has to do a shot. :sqeyes: Then you keep playing until everyone get sucked in. :D

[HOOTER SLED-]

http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
I think we should get on some rafts and see who could get the closest. Who ever is the furthest from the hole has to do a shot. :sqeyes: Then you keep playing until everyone get sucked in. :D
Good idea!!! :)

[Sane Asylum]

http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
I think we should get on some rafts and see who could get the closest. Who ever is the furthest from the hole has to do a shot. :sqeyes: Then you keep playing until everyone get sucked in. :D
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....................NO.....I' ll watch though....

[fkeys]

I've never seen anything like that!! Where is Berryessa?

[SSTahoe]

I have the chills just thinking about getting close to that hole. :eek:

[Desert Rat]

http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/350Glory_Hole2-med.jpg
I think we should get on some rafts and see who could get the closest. Who ever is the furthest from the hole has to do a shot. :sqeyes: Then you keep playing until everyone get sucked in. :D
Lets us know who wins. I'll be waiting at the computer.

[BLEWBAYOU1]

I've never seen anything like that!! Where is Berryessa?
It's in Napa county Nor Cal. about 45 miles west of Sacramento.
Brian

[Rocket-J]

This is a very popular lake for those of us in NorCal. It stays relatively full most of the season. Many boat clubs have their outings there. There is a big sheltered cove on the N.W. corner of the lake "under the bridge" that fills with hundreds of boats on a good weekend. Can't hardly drive through it. Several other arms and coves to explore. One of our favorite lakes. Al

[Rexone]

That would be cool to ride through that in a barrel. As long as that 90º turn 200 feet down ain't a sharp 90.

[1Bahnerjet]

Al,(Rocket J) that your Boat in the Avatar ?
looks to Big (25' & under) for Anderson, must be why I've never seen it.
seen Robbie Racer in his "Little" Tunnel (Daytona) on Anderson.
Berryessa is COOL, only gonna stay on Top half of Lake now :rollside:

[4-B]

I heard one guy got too close once
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/732hoss3.jpg
Thanks for giving my wife and I a good laugh
:D :D

[wsuwrhr]

That would be cool to ride through that in a barrel. As long as that 90º turn 200 feet down ain't a sharp 90.
What happens when you get to the "turbine" Rex?
:eek: :eek: :eek: :hammerhea
Brian

[JetBoatRich]

It is an awesome picture :rolleyes: it would be pretty scarey gettting near that thing, even if you were standing on a bridge near it

[Rexone]

What happens when you get to the "turbine" Rex?
:eek: :eek: :eek: :hammerhea
Brian
Prolly best you pick a day when they aren't routing through the turbine.

[Havasu Hangin']

Prolly best you pick a day when they aren't routing through the turbine.
Rex- how about a dry day? We'll put you on a skateboard... :idea:

[Rexone]

Rex- how about a dry day? We'll put you on a skateboard... :idea:
HH I can't even get out the driveway right side up on a skateboard lol.