For our second date, Gregg took me to Palouse Falls. We scrambled on steep trails, rock slides and boulders. I felt appalled by graffiti on some rock cliffs and spires. We had fun.

About fifteen-thousand-years ago, massive Ice Age floods scoured out the Eastern Washington landscape and formed the cliffs of modern-day Palouse Falls.

Palouse Falls drops almost 200-feet on its way to the Palouse River, which feeds into the Snake River of southeastern Washington. The falls are massive, carrying an estimated volume of 2,000-cubic-feet of water over the underlying lava flow cliffs every second.

Palouse Falls is the last remaining year-round waterfall that once stood in the path of the ice age floods.

The play of light on the canyon and surrounding landscape changes throughout the day as light first hits the falls then fades away into the evening.

Imagine a wall of water 40-feet high barreling toward you.

The Missoula Floods were a series of floods that occurred in the Pacific Northwest at the end of last Ice Age. They were a cataclysmic type of flood called a glacial lake outburst flood. They were unimaginably large. During peak discharge they had a flow of thirteen-
million meters per second. Overall, there were roughly 40-floods an average of 50-years apart.

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