Scablands I

Scablands II

Scablands III

Palouse Clouds I

Palouse Clouds II

Palouse Clouds III

Road Trip in the Palouse – 7.22.2009

This last week we had the pleasure of showing a dear friend the Palouse area of eastern Washington. We drove all farm roads from Coeur D’ Alene, Idaho to Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. Using Colfax, Washington as our base, we drove east to Dayton, WA crossing the trail of Lewis and Clark to start getting a feel of where the Palouse ends and the Channel Scablands start. The Scablands of Washington were created during the epic flood 10,000 years ago, when an ice dam broke in northwest Montana and sent a wall of water estimated at 800 feet high through Spokane, WA and fanned out like a delta towards the Columbia River. This area of the state is void of top soil (unlike the Palouse), and is marked by a series of dry Coulees. A harsh landscape, but interesting to photograph.

Alpine Brook III

Alpine Brook II

Alpine Brook I

At about 7500 ft. in Cathedral Mountain Provincial Park in British Columbia, I discovered these small snow melt brooks. The water percolates through a boggy layer of thick, reedy grass on its trip down the mountain side.