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Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:26 am

Great shots Sodo, brings back memories!
It's been decades since I've visited that part of Washington; I need to reconnect.

Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:03 pm

Sodo wrote:
Ancient Lakes trail, in the central Washington scablands.
These are called “Kolk lakes”.
They are leftover “plunge pools”, bored into the lava bedrock by turbulent flood waters

DEEP flood waters…..500 feet deep :shock:
Flowing from left to right in the pic.

Not really a ‘cascade’ when you consider the flood water level was
about 5x above the ledge where the van is parked.
And miles wide.
Watched a great PBS show years ago on how that happened, a collapsing ice dam thousands of years ago.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/about.html

Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:08 pm

Missoula Ice Floods.. It's kinda hard to get your mind around when you see all that out in central Washington.

Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:50 pm

You can still see the various Ice Age lake levels on the hillsides above Missoula as the lake filled and drained several times.

As you drive around the Scablands in eastern Washington you'll see giant boulders in the middle of some wheat farmers field and get a sense of the power.

Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:19 pm

Yeah that's a cool area, used to bird hunt around there.

Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:40 am

Great place

Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:37 am

That bottom pic is worthy of a Playvan centerfold.

Submitted for your approval: Boondocking in the Ozarks of Arkansas for the eclipse.

Next time bring tick repellent. Lyme disease sucks. $75 urgent care and $20 of doxycycline cleared it up better than the clap.

Mon May 06, 2024 12:27 am

Here are couple of pics from our Bluestar westfalia in the wild

Mon May 06, 2024 4:19 am

Welcome! Nice looking van.

Mon May 06, 2024 6:30 am

Right hand drive model? What's with your wood gas cap thing?

Mon May 06, 2024 10:07 am

4Gears4Tires wrote: Right hand drive model? What's with your wood gas cap thing?

LHD, pics taken from our IG and those are mirrored for some reason?
What cap?

Edit : ah it is a metal shield, prevous owner has installed it to hide some rust probably 😅

Mon May 06, 2024 7:54 pm

Mon May 06, 2024 8:01 pm

Badlands SD

Tue May 07, 2024 7:11 am

That's really cool. What caused the pink layer?

Tue May 07, 2024 7:21 am

Quote: The horizontal layers of multi-colored sandstone, clay and shale are complimented by scattered beds of lignite coal and patches of pastel pink scoria. The pinkish color is created when the soft lignite burns in fires usually started by lightning, baking the surrounding clay to this bright color.

https://lowestravels.com/2015/08/31/why-are-the-badlands-so-colorful-theodore-roosevelt-np/

Take the source for whatever a random link on the internet is worth. More research is probably required. The answer may be in here, but I don't feel like reading 49 pages right now. https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/0056/pdf/of01-056.pdf

Sun Jun 16, 2024 8:27 pm

Took a van out for a little dirt action.

This seemed like a promising place for a trail to start….:

But it soon got better:

And then a little better

And action video:

Mon Jun 17, 2024 6:17 am

That was quite a lot bobbing down the hill. How was going back up? Nice video!

Mon Jun 17, 2024 6:24 am

Most of it was graded road :) that one spot was optional, and one way. And the teeter totter was just for visual fun, it could have been done much smoother if there was a desire :)

Tue Jun 18, 2024 7:36 am

Parked for the night in a green meadow at Yuba Gap, 5700ft elev.
Just off California hwy80.