DWS Avalanche Lake Dacks?

Morgan Patterson wrote:Then technically it's a pond... ;-P don't lakes have to be deeper then 100ft?

There may be differing definitions out there, but I have a book that defines "pond" as having rooted plants growing all the way across. By that definition, the pond I grew up on (33 ft deep) was actually a lake. But the locals and the USGS refer to it as a pond. And the local geology-guru referred to it as a kettle pond.

Sunlight hits the bottom at deepest part of a pond. There is no sunlight at the deepest part of a lake. So I was informed.

Just wanted to point out the obvious... getting hurt that far back at Avalanche Lake would SUCK. IMO not worth it.

Gunkiemike wrote: There may be differing definitions out there, but I have a book that defines "pond" as having rooted plants growing all the way across. By that definition, the pond I grew up on (33 ft deep) was actually a lake. But the locals and the USGS refer to it as a pond. And the local geology-guru referred to it as a kettle pond.

You got my thinkin so I looked up on USGS site... there are no standard accepted definitions for pond vs lake, hill vs mountain, river vs creek as far as they go. But culturally I would argue they are locally defined.

quote=RockinOut>Sunlight hits the bottom at deepest part of a pond. There is no sunlight at the deepest part of a lake. So I was informed.
Right on,
Water flows into ponds, from, brooks, creeks, springs, smaller tributaries, etc. PONDING (the collection of water) and not really out (although it may escape in flood or at other times and places often man made for flood control)(does that fit gunkiemike?)
Lakes Can be fed by the same sources and have exits... flows that leads to Rivers, that flow to seas oceans, Sounds, larger bodies of water that eventually drain into oceans.
The common interchangeable term pond or lake, is a result of the new world order of the lazy lexicon
that W Safire of the New York Times Sunday Magazine was the best at explaining.

Michael Schneider wrote:quote=RockinOut>Sunlight hits the bottom at deepest part of a pond. There is no sunlight at the deepest part of a lake. So I was informed. Right on, Water flows into ponds, from, brooks, creeks, springs, smaller tributaries, etc. PONDING (the collection of water) and not really out (although it may escape in flood or at other times and places often man made for flood control)(does that fit gunkiemike?) Lakes Can be fed by the same sources and have exits... flows that leads to Rivers, that flow to seas oceans, Sounds, larger bodies of water that eventually drain into oceans. The common interchangeable term pond or lake, is a result of the new world order of the lazy lexicon that W Safire of the New York Times Sunday Magazine was the best at explaining.

There are many definitions out there these days and none are right or wrong. They're just names that don't have specific meanings anymore. It's not a lazyness factor at all. Locally that's how your area might define a pond. In New England it might be a depth thing. . . Read the USGS link above. I always thought from my decades in the wilderness it was a technically a depth difference for ponds and lakes. Likewise creek vs stream I alwasys thought was a factor of it being seasonal or not but none of it is "true" or "correct" on a nationwide scale.