Saturday, August 20, 2011

The Great Ice Age Floods - Tuesday, August 9, 2011


After the Breakfast Buffet, we gathered in the lobby to board the bus. We traveled west to an overlook above the Grand Coulee Dam. When completed in 1941, Grand Coulee Dam was the world's largest concrete structure. We stopped to view Steamboat Rock. We had a picnic lunch at Dry Falls. Afterwards we traveled by bus down a narrow dirt road to the bottom of Dry Falls. We had a great view of Umatilla Rock that was once a Goat Island in the center of the Dry Falls cataract.

We traveled to Yeager Rock, a huge glacial erratic, on the Waterville Plateau east of Mansfield, WA, that was carried to this spot by a Pleistocene glacier. We stopped at B & B Fruit Stand, 13041 SR 2, East Wenatchee. This is a family owned and operated fruit stand celebrating 43 years in business. They grow their own cherries, apricots, peaches and nectarines. Several people bought fruit. I got a Good Humor Ice Cream bar. We traveled to Moses Lake via Quincy and George to our lodging for the night at the Shilo Inn. I found two EarthCaches, DNF one cache and found a benchmark.

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