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

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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

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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.

[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!"