Gorge Flood Trip Report – 09.06.08
On Saturday, September 6, 2008, Columbia Gorge flood trip participants gathered at Shari?s in Troutdale to start the long day learning more about the Missoula Floods. Those of you who were not able to attend and want to learn more about these historic floods can do an internet search for Missoula Floods, or Ice Age Floods to get more information. You can also go to the Ice Age Floods Institute website and learn more there.
Read more at Sept. 6 Gorge Flood Trip Report
Categories: Adventures Tags: adventure, columbia, columbia river, lake, missoula floods, oregon, pacific northwest, trip
Eastern Washington Coulee Country Tour – 05.25.2008
Generally, I don’t like to travel on holiday weekends, especially when it involves going to Eastern Washington. However a day trip on a Sunday isn’t bad – no Monday stop and go traffic over Snoqualmie Pass to contend with.
On Sunday, my son Steven, our dog and myself headed out around 6:00 a.m. over Snoqualmie Pass to Eastern Washington on a photographic tour. After a stop in Ellensburg for gas, coffee and food (plus a few stops on the way for the dog), we headed east on I-90 to Vantage, across the Columbia River and south on SR 243 towards Beverly to head up Lower Crab Creek.
Read more…
Categories: Adventures, On The Web Tags: appledale, atv, beverly, blue lake, columbia, columbia river, corfu, coulee, crescent bar, deep lake, dry falls, dry falls lake, dunes, highland school, junction, land cruiser, lenore lake, lower crab creek, lower grand coulee, moses coulee, moses lake, o'sullivan dam, orv, othello, palisades, parke lake, perch lake, potholes reservoir, quincy, railroad, road trip, rv, seep lakes, shrub-steppe, smyma, soap lake, soda lake, sun lakes state park, tour, trestle, umatilla rock, upper goose lake, washington, west bar
Tour Announcement – Track the Ice Age Floods, Columbia River Gorge – 9/6/08
We’ll follow in the footsteps of Lewis & Clark and the Oregon Trail as we tour the eastern portion of the Columbia River Gorge and examine the Ice Age Flood evidence.
Mark Buser, President of Lower Columbia Chapter of Ice Age Floods Institute has graciously consented to accompany our trip. Mark has studied the Floods in the Columbia Gorge and Willamette Valley extensively.
Read more at Track the Ice Age Floods, Columbia River Gorge Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.
Categories: Adventures Tags: columbia river, flood, ice age, oregon, oregon trail, washington, willamette valley
Photos – Tracking the Ice Age Floods
Here are a few photos from Saturday’s (April 19, 2008) road trip through the coulee country of Eastern Washington. Complete trip reports are posted on the forum at Tracking Ice Age Floods – April 19, 2008.
Categories: Adventures Tags: Backroad Drivers Northwest, banks Lake, Black Butte, caribou trail, columbia river, Coulee City, drumheller channels, dry falls, grand coulee dam, hartline, ice age floods institute, lake lenore, missoula floods, moses lake, pinto ridge, roosevelt lake, soap lake, stratford, sun lakes, washington
OlympiaFJ60.net – Driving the Blue Highways – Yakima to Vantage to Ellensburg
Brandon over on OlympiaFJ60.net has a piece on driving what he calls “Blue Highways” (the secondary highways on the maps), and specifically a loop he recently completed beginning and ending in Yakima and taking him along the Columbia River to Vantage, Ellensburg, and through the Yakima River canyon.
Read the entire trip report at Driving the Blue Highways – Yakima to Vantage to Ellensburg.
Enjoy.
Categories: On The Web Tags: backroads, columbia river, ellensburg, highways, vantage, yakima, yakima river
Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Final Thoughts
Over the last four days, I completed a 681 mile adventure (not counting the additional 465 miles to get to the starting point and back home again) following an overland route through the Cascade Mountains of Washington state, stretching from the Columbia River near Carson, Washington to Chopaka at the border crossing with British Columbia. From my records, about 63% of the overland route was on forest roads.
Categories: Adventures, On The Web Tags: 4wd, 4x4, 80-series, adventure, bethel ridge, british columbia, carson, cascade mountains, cascades, chelan, chopaka, cle elum, columbia river, expedition, fj80, forest road, four wheel drive, ghost towns, land cruiser, manastash, mines, okanogan, oregon discovery route, overland, packwood, seattle, similkameen river, toyota, trail, trip, walla walla, washington
Trip Report: Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Day Three (08.12.07)
To Drive from near Blewett Pass (Cle Elum) to Chelan, Washington via as many forest roads as possible.
Categories: Adventures Tags: adventure, antilon lake, blewett pass, british columbia, camp, camping, campsite, cascade mountains, cascades, cashmere, chelan, chumstick, cle elum, columbia river, cooper mountain, cooper ridge, domke, durst creek, eagle creek, entiat, expedition, fj80, forest road, haney meadows, lake chelan, land cruiser, landcruiser, leavenworth, liberty, lookout, manson, mission creek, nahahum, national forest, okanogan, overland, shady pass, toyota, trip, upper joe creek, wapato lake, washington, wenatchee, wenatchee national forest, wenatchee river
