Notes from Pasco-Kahlotus highway (May 28) (backdated from July 7)

[nibot]

Palouse Canyon. May 28, 2006.

A novelty of working nights was the opportunity to go off on hiking trips from 08:00 AM (end of work) to noon (bedtime!). At Powells Books in Portland with wealhtheow a few days earlier, I'd picked up a book* of hikes in the eastern Washington desert. It mentioned a place called Palouse Falls... so I was off, down the Pasco-Kahlotus highway in search of this alleged 100 foot waterfall. Eastern Washington has a subtle beauty and good highways. Paulouse Falls did not disappoint. Recommended.

It would not be proper to mention Eastern Washington and not include the Missoula Floods, the mind-bogglingly tremendous ice-age floods that carved out that half of that state. But I am not qualified, so read Wikipedia.

* subsequently donated to the library at LIGO Hanford Observatory

Comments

Missoula floods

[jlam.livejournal.com]

Nova aired with a segment “Mysteries of the Megaflood” about the Missoula Floods about a month ago. The animated recreation of the collapsing glacier and video from a similar collapse about 20 years ago in Greenland (i think) make it worth seeing.

Re: Missoula floods

[nibot.livejournal.com]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/ !

Re: Missoula floods

[jlam.livejournal.com]

Aye, i should have read Wikipedia first: “Mystery of the Megaflood”. Accordingly, that aforementioned collapsing ice dam happened 10 years ago in Iceland. (So i've been told Greenland is full of ice, and Iceland is green, huh!)

iceland green, greenland ice

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I'm told that this was a Viking marketing ploy!

Re: iceland green, greenland ice

[fg.livejournal.com]

o.g. real estate scam right there.

[nanomonkey.livejournal.com]

Clicked on the link to your current location on google maps and was surprised (sadened?) to see "Starbucks" as the only local place...then realized that it said "Starbuck" instead. I was thinking, "Damn, they ARE everywhere!"