the gulch floods in the spring with the runoff from the mountains, so wait until later in the summer to hike it
Recent Examples on the WebAnd there was the complete bison skeleton at the base of a gulch in Wind Cave National Park, so freshly mauled by one such wildcat that the bones remained moist with sinew. Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 28 July 2022 The film, in theaters July 22, stars Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Oscar nominee Steven Yeun as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 May 2022 The vehicle catapulted across a couple lanes of California highway and landed sideways at the bottom of a gulch. Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2021 That the actors Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King and Lakeith Stanfield are playing inhabitants of the cinematic dry gulch constructed by director Jeymes Samuel (who co-wrote the screenplay with Boaz Yakin) is certainly noteworthy. John Anderson, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2021 The teenager warns me that they've been stuck in the gulch for three hours. Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021 But in March 2012, a breakthrough came when a hiker venturing near the highway where her personal items had been found came upon her remains in a gulch -- a dry streambed -- amid rocks, weeds and brush. Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 21 May 2021 Making an abrupt cut in the landscape, the gulch is lodged between the hulking flattop of Cedar Mesa (5,542 feet) to the west and the Diamond Rim and the ragged valley cut by Webber Creek to the east. Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2020 Despite daily briefings and constant government negotiations, Pennsylvania Avenue resembles a massive gulch.Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
perhaps from English dialect gulch to gulp, from Middle English gulchen