Wenatchee Washington - Ice Age Floods Geology

[@wafflesnfalafel1]

That is really nicely done - enough information to be educational, excitement for the material, local references for folks to tie it close to home.

[@vnvet2282]

Like the bow tie. Grew up in Wenatchee and took my first geology course at Wenatchee Valley College in 1973. Our teacher, a chemist(!), took us on field trips where we saw the physical evidence of the flood waters released during the ice age. That geology course got me hooked as I look back as a retired geologist. Very good presentation.

[@greatbigukes4269]

For autodidacts, these really are wonderful videos. Congratulations.

[@Ellensburg44]

Really appreciate your comments, wafflesnfalafel! Just what we were trying to do! Thanks for watching.

[@almeisam]

Hello young people? I'm 62 and I enjoy the presentations.

[@Ellensburg44]

Ha! Glad that you like these.

[@eburg301]

Great informative videos packed into short clips. Keep up the good work!

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks for your enthusiasm, Raul. New videos coming real soon...

[@hillwalker250]

Nick Thank you for your videos. We actually drove from Cougar, Wa. to The Dry falls yesterday. We took pictures of the places you showed in your videos. It has helped me and my friend leslie understand more of what we are looking at and therefore makes it more beautiful and exciting. Our trip lasted 17.5 hours and 650 miles it was epic. We want to visit the Wallula Gap next.

[@Ellensburg44]

Wow. That sounds like quite a trip. Nice to hear our videos have been helpful. Thanks.

[@joebond5012]

Fascinating facts, very enjoyable, thanks for sharing.

[@chiroyce72]

I first saw this on our local PBS station between shows. Very nice to see the video with explanation. Really like the part that shows the current speed and water depth. I love driving out to Quincy and seeing those down at Crescent Bar. Really amazing to know how they were formed. The geological evidence is fascinating to comprehend.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thank you, Royce.

[@eljaysmiley]

My Mama's family lived in Wenatchee in the 1940's on Mission or Methow Avenue. They had 2 huge boulders in their backyard; a "ship" which was long and low and a "castle" that was larger than the house! The kids loved the adventures there.❤

[@patgorham4796]

My grandfather and his father & mother and four brothers were all homesteaders in the Wenatchee Valley among the earliest homesteaders in the area. My grandfather drove a stagecoach between Clelumn and Wenatchee in those early days.

[@m8x425]

Nice to know. This kind of stuff wasn't covered at the local schools. I can tell this video was shot around mid April - mid May when the hills are still green and the Yellow Bells are in bloom. Almost all of the marketing pictures of Wenatchee are shot during this time of year.

[@charlesinglin]

This is a great series. Thanks for posting.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thank you, Charles.

[@rapidcabin]

I very much enjoy the complex nature of the valley's development. Thank you for these videos. While building a house not far from where you were standing above Sunnyslope, we found shells as we were digging our foundation. Amazing how deep the water was.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thank you. Shells on your property probably mean something different than the Ice Age. Would like to see them...

[@rapidcabin]

Hi Nick. That foundation was dug 25 years ago, sadly I did not keep any of the small shells. They were quite small, no more than 1/4 to 3/8 inch and similar to what a clam would look like. Also while digging a foundation in the downtown area we dug through very hard layers of silt, almost like slate. As we split the layers open there were perfect ferns. How long ago would that have been in this area?

[@kylea.1223]

I loved this video. It's nice learning new things about Wenatchee. I love spring time here because that's when the foothills and the plateau are green.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks Tony Tony!

[@yorkshire_tea_innit8097]

Ice rafted erratic found at the upper margins of a periglacial lake/basin, that is very cool. I hadn't thought about that possibility when geologising.

[@Ellensburg44]

Was new to me too - last year! Thanks Ryukey.

[@weesnatchee]

Thanks! I now have a much better understanding of this area I call home.

[@Ellensburg44]

You're lucky to be living in such a beautiful place! Thanks for the note.

[@kristenbarclay8658]

weesnatchee I’m from Wenatchee too! Great city!

[@pprehn5268]

I suspected that before, thanks for the confirmation for Leavenworth

[@Ellensburg44]

+P Prehn Thanks for watching.

[@Ilumiflow]

Love it Nick!

[@marktwain368]

This is perfect! I am half done a novel set in Wenatchee, and the more I know, the better setting I create!

[@Ellensburg44]

Good to know.

[@Mephilis78]

These were all just random facts until I moved to Wenatchee in June. I'm from the Midwest, around the Eastern Nebraska bluffs along the Platte River. I bet Nick would have some interesting things to say about Nebraska too, especially the bluffs (over almost all of Nebraska) and the giant rock formations in the West, like Chimney Rock. He may even have something to say about the Sandhills in North central Nebraska.

[@robynmoon86]

This video is great!!

[@RAIDERxNATION]

I was wondering why those high peaks stood that tall around Leavenworth but it makes sense the ice age because I haven’t heard of giant peaks created by crust plates crashing…

[@Wahunganganshapunck]

So I am an archaeologist monitoring a construction project in Wenatchee, about a half mile south of the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia. They have cut down from the surface to about 5 meters. Its all stratified sand, silt. I think I have at least one rhythmite visible in some of my profile photos. Its just a stark white layer of silt loam about 5 cm thick. My geology map calls it fan deposits, but strats seem generally flat. Is it safe to assume that this terrace or fan might be from these floods.

[@watcherspirit2351]

Excellent!

[@WestCoastGoldProspecting]

Hi there, I prospect for gold at the sleepy hollow bridge and I found a couple pieces of what seem to be rock (whitish) with an almost black rounded friction mark in each piece. One of them is actually stamped with the number 42 on it and I have been wondering for years now, and I figured who better to ask then you 🙂

[@Ellensburg44]

Not sure I have much to say, Damon. No idea, really. Where is Sleepy Hollow Bridge? That might give me an idea or two.

[@WestCoastGoldProspecting]

Oh sorry, I thought you were from here in Wenatchee. Sleepy hollow bridge is the 3rd bridge up the Wenatchee river.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks. The bridge is in a spot where the rocks come from both the Cascades and from northeastern WA due to Missoula Floods coming down the Columbia. So the source of the white rocks have many possibilities. Email me a photo or two and I will try harder on this. Thanks. [e-mail]

[@WestCoastGoldProspecting]

I will do that now. And by the way, me and my wife have watched a lot of your stuff. You do awesome.

[@frankierobison9897]

My husband was born in Wenachee. We spent much time in that area going to Chelan.

[@stevekingsford-smith6957]

Great stuff. Somehow, I just discovered this. I teach PNW History in the White Salmon School District and these are perfect conversation starters/project reinforcement! Thanks TONS!!!

[@Ellensburg44]

+Stephen Kingsford-Smith Glad you found us, Stephen. Nice to hear our videos will help you.

[@nelsonwalker7105]

Very interesting and very entertaining.

[@Ellensburg44]

+Nelson Walker Very nice comment, Nelson.

[@djolley61]

We need a guy like you in Utah.

[@heatherxmars46]

What would happen if the rocky reach dam and rock island dam failed?

[@Ellensburg44]

Am not an engineer. Your guess is as good as mine. Thanks for watching.

[@philnau7902]

Could you possibly clone yourself and come down to Southern California and explain what went on down here in such an informative way? ;-)

[@jeffalexander6306]

Isn't it true that there are still some buried glaciers in the Okanagan valley?

[@Ellensburg44]

News to me. Let me know if you have information.

[@THEBOSS-vn2ky]

It's NOW 2020 GOOD JOB KID

[@patgorham4796]

Talk about the floods of 1948 & 1949, I remember houses floating down the Columbia River. We all had to get typhoid vaccination.

[@hillwalker250]

Oh by the way I see you're giving a lecture at the Sandhill Crane Festival next weekend. I hope to encourage my friend Leslie to go and to hear your talk. Until i went to the website I thought the festival was all ballon animals and face painting, I'm happy to be wrong on that. Maybe you could make a wiener dog out of a ballon!

[@Ellensburg44]

Will see you in Othello, James. Many good speakers and field trips - balloons optional.

[@haroldsmith8698]

I WILL KEEP ON SAYING WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR ON THE COMPUTER IS A LOT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU GET OUT OF THE TEXT BOOKS. IF YOU WANT TO GET A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION READ DAVID ALT'S BOOK.. ON THE GREAT MISSULA FLOOD..HE HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE AREA.

[@Ellensburg44]

Harold, I agree that David Alt's book is good...but our video here is more specific and carefully tailored to the Wenatchee area. Both sources of information are accurate. Thanks for watching.

[@charlenadequeiroz5483]

I live in Wenatchee

[@Ellensburg44]

I live in Ellensburg

[@branscoset]

none of these videos are 2 minutes long

[@davidwhite2116]

It's a guess. We don't know

[@PhothreeniX]

brownwaterboys

[@MrHeepspo]

"ice age"... lol.

[@Ellensburg44]

Glad you enjoyed the laugh.

[@Entropy106]

Is it hotter than Seattle there

[@galacticwizard5442]

60 years ago my grandfather and his friends shot .22s at eachother playing cowboys and Indians at the giant rocks.