Dry Falls and the MegaFlood
September 19, 2008 by Rosalind Gardner
Filed under Our Trips & Tips
Dry Falls is one of the greatest geological wonders in North America — a former waterfall that now stands as a dry cliff 400 feet high and 3.5 miles wide. When active, this waterfall was ten times larger than Niagara Falls.
The falls were created following the catastrophic collapse of an enormous ice-dam holding back the waters of what has been named “Glacier Lake Missoula”. Water covering three thousand square miles of northwest Montana was blocked behind a glacial dam until the rising lake penetrated, lifted and then blew out the ice dam.
Grand Coulee Dam
September 18, 2008 by Rosalind Gardner
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The first stop on our Washington / Oregon / California road trip was the Grand Coulee Dam where we stayed overnight in Electric City, Washington, specifically to see the laser light show.
Arriving in Coulee City at around 4PM, we were able to check out the Visitor’s Center and still catch one of the last dam tours (that sounds bad, doesn’t it?) that day.
