Me, too!

We just need to figure out how to clone him.

Avana, Thank you for sharing your great theory! I was lost in visualizing this. And shocked when he mentioned pillow basalts.

There's a problem with that hypothesis. There was plant growth between flows, but as I understand it, there are different types of trees from several different habitation zones...all in the same level in the stack of basalt flows. Not all the tree types would have been growing in the same area or elevation. It is a fact that a lake of sufficient volume had to be involved, but I don't believe the evidence supports the lake drowning a single forest. Also, from what I gather, the logs were partially or fully petrified before the lave encased them. A given area could change enough over time to go from swamp to forest, but that would require a sampling of trees to constantly be washed into a conveniently placed lake, which then stuck around for a few thousand more years, but even that would not result in the placement of many species of trees in the same layer of basalt. I think there was some event, probably volcanic, which basically blew thousands of trees down over a fairly wide area. Later, it may have been lahars, or 'regular' floods, but some of the resulting snags got washed down into a lake which had formed much like you described. The trees got waterlogged and sat at the bottom in heavily mineralized water for thousands of years before the lava encroached.

@@nevyen149 Yes, that makes sense. You mean, like the logs that clogged Spirit Lake after Mt. St. Helens 1980 eruption, but in a lava-dammed lake, right?

@@AvanaVana Exactly the visual I had in mind!

I'd love to stay a week or two in that house as an AirBnB but I'd never blame someone for never wanting to rent such a beautiful home out

You know, I lived in Kansas my whole life and his videos are one of the reasons I now live in the Seattle area, and I am loving it here.

Yes I noticed there was a shallow basalt cave there, not deep enough to be a bat cave but deep enough to be a nice bird rest area.

One possible explanation is that the trees were logs floating in a lake. The logs were multiple species swept into this lake by a flood from the Cascades to the west. The basalt flow encroached on this lake from fissures in the east. When hot liquid rock enters water the outer surface cools rapidly, forming shapes called pillow lavas. These encase the log in solid rock without incinerating it because steam has carried away most of the heat. The lake boils off leaving a thick layer of solid, warm rock marbled with the remnants of trees. Later basalt flows bury the earlier episodes which are insulating their embedded logs from incineration. Some flows cool slowly, forming columnar layers because they didn't touch a large body of water. Millions of years pass, allowing petrification to proceed undisturbed. My opinion of this great footage is that the lodgepole is surrounded by pillowed lava but other elevations on the cliff face show columnar shapes, but the latter are not near the log. *SUGGESTED VIEWING* kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMySgNujtdS9k5c.html

Ditto. a.k.a. Lodge pole.

Worth noting that there were many types of construction for lodges ans other American Indian dwellings. Interior of Ceremonial Lodge, Columbia River - 1846 i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/47/f1/7e47f11a50b4ef05768633999edf8276.jpg

Yes, it appears the Yakima people of modern Washington state did use tipis, similar to the various Sioux tribes who are more well known for this type of building. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakama#/media/File:Yakimatent.jpg

@@AvanaVana Yes, the picture I found is of a structure attributed to a branch of the Chinook tribe on the Lower Columbia River.