Touring the Ice Age Floods of Washington, Part 1
Driving around eastern Washington, I’ve always been a bit confused. Some of the landforms and supposed drainages just don’t make sense. It turns out there is a reason for that. Massive ice age floods shaped the region with forces and water at levels that are impossible to comprehend. I can only imagine the reaction when the geologist J. Harlan Bretz proposed that these features were shaped by a series of massive floods. The amount of water and the speed at which is flowed is just simply at a scale of nothing that has ever been observed. He put the pieces together and along with the discovery of the existence of prehistoric lake Missoula that existed during the past ice age, the geology community finally came to accept his theory as fact.
After a lot of our own research, and putting some pins in the map, we came up with a trip plan and set out to see the pieces of the Ice Age Flood puzzle for ourselves.
