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.
@Ellensburg4411 жыл бұрын
Really appreciate your comments, wafflesnfalafel! Just what we were trying to do! Thanks for watching.
@eljaysmiley11 ай бұрын
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.❤
@wafflesnfalafel111 жыл бұрын
That is really nicely done - enough information to be educational, excitement for the material, local references for folks to tie it close to home.
@greatbigukes42693 жыл бұрын
For autodidacts, these really are wonderful videos. Congratulations.
@almeisam6 жыл бұрын
Hello young people? I'm 62 and I enjoy the presentations.
@Ellensburg446 жыл бұрын
Ha! Glad that you like these.
@PinkPoofiePalace-123421 күн бұрын
I love the Cascadian, it was so gorgeous in its hay day!🎉 Tfs! My mother owned 1111 S Mission home. In the 1970s to 80s I think it's still there, 😊
@hillwalker2509 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ellensburg448 жыл бұрын
Wow. That sounds like quite a trip. Nice to hear our videos have been helpful. Thanks.
@m8x425 Жыл бұрын
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.
@eburg3019 жыл бұрын
Great informative videos packed into short clips. Keep up the good work!
@Ellensburg449 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your enthusiasm, Raul. New videos coming real soon...
@robynmoon863 жыл бұрын
This video is great!!
@chiroyce727 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ellensburg447 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Royce.
@lowdownRS763 жыл бұрын
Love it Nick!
@frankierobison989717 күн бұрын
My husband was born in Wenachee. We spent much time in that area going to Chelan.
@Mephilis784 жыл бұрын
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.
@patgorham4796 Жыл бұрын
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.
@weesnatchee10 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I now have a much better understanding of this area I call home.
@Ellensburg4410 жыл бұрын
You're lucky to be living in such a beautiful place! Thanks for the note.
@kristenbarclay86585 жыл бұрын
weesnatchee I’m from Wenatchee too! Great city!
@marktwain3686 жыл бұрын
This is perfect! I am half done a novel set in Wenatchee, and the more I know, the better setting I create!
@Ellensburg446 жыл бұрын
Good to know.
@pprehn52688 жыл бұрын
I suspected that before, thanks for the confirmation for Leavenworth
@Ellensburg448 жыл бұрын
+P Prehn Thanks for watching.
@kylea.122310 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ellensburg4410 жыл бұрын
Thanks Tony Tony!
@rapidcabin7 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ellensburg447 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Shells on your property probably mean something different than the Ice Age. Would like to see them...
@rapidcabin7 жыл бұрын
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?
@watcherspirit23512 жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@yorkshire_tea_innit809710 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ellensburg4410 жыл бұрын
Was new to me too - last year! Thanks Ryukey.
@charlesinglin7 жыл бұрын
This is a great series. Thanks for posting.
@Ellensburg447 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Charles.
@djolley614 жыл бұрын
We need a guy like you in Utah.
@THEBOSS-vn2ky3 жыл бұрын
It's NOW 2020 GOOD JOB KID
@RAIDERxNATION2 жыл бұрын
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…
@stevekingsford-smith69579 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@Ellensburg449 жыл бұрын
+Stephen Kingsford-Smith Glad you found us, Stephen. Nice to hear our videos will help you.
@philnau79025 жыл бұрын
Could you possibly clone yourself and come down to Southern California and explain what went on down here in such an informative way? ;-)
@nelsonwalker71058 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and very entertaining.
@Ellensburg448 жыл бұрын
+Nelson Walker Very nice comment, Nelson.
@HJWhitehall6 жыл бұрын
Hey Nick, will you do a video on Moses Coulee? My family tried to farm the land east of the coulee just off of Highway 2 (Whitehall Road) and Jameson Lake, but lack of water in the basalt rocks made it hard to irrigate the fields in the summer month and crops failed. I have always loved this coulee and this is where I found my love for geology as a child. There is so much geologic history in the Waterville Plateau with glacial erratics, floods, and more. Go Wildcats!
@Ellensburg446 жыл бұрын
On my list, Heather! Go CWU.
@HJWhitehall6 жыл бұрын
GREAT! Thanks, Nick. I have to make my way Eburg for one of your lectures. I am sure my husband would love an excuse to see his alumni and admire the geology of Eastern Washington...again. :)
@patgorham4796 Жыл бұрын
Talk about the floods of 1948 & 1949, I remember houses floating down the Columbia River. We all had to get typhoid vaccination.
@Wahunganganshapunck Жыл бұрын
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.
@haroldsmith86989 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ellensburg449 жыл бұрын
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.
@WestCoastGoldProspecting7 жыл бұрын
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 🙂
@Ellensburg447 жыл бұрын
Not sure I have much to say, Damon. No idea, really. Where is Sleepy Hollow Bridge? That might give me an idea or two.
@WestCoastGoldProspecting7 жыл бұрын
Oh sorry, I thought you were from here in Wenatchee. Sleepy hollow bridge is the 3rd bridge up the Wenatchee river.
@Ellensburg447 жыл бұрын
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. nick@geology.cwu.edu
@WestCoastGoldProspecting7 жыл бұрын
I will do that now. And by the way, me and my wife have watched a lot of your stuff. You do awesome.
@hillwalker2509 жыл бұрын
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!
@Ellensburg449 жыл бұрын
Will see you in Othello, James. Many good speakers and field trips - balloons optional.
@charlenadequeiroz54836 жыл бұрын
I live in Wenatchee
@Ellensburg446 жыл бұрын
I live in Ellensburg
@heatherxmars468 жыл бұрын
What would happen if the rocky reach dam and rock island dam failed?
@Ellensburg448 жыл бұрын
Am not an engineer. Your guess is as good as mine. Thanks for watching.
@jeffalexander63067 жыл бұрын
Isn't it true that there are still some buried glaciers in the Okanagan valley?
@Ellensburg446 жыл бұрын
News to me. Let me know if you have information.
@branscoset11 жыл бұрын
none of these videos are 2 minutes long
@davidwhite21162 жыл бұрын
It's a guess. We don't know
@PhothreeniX11 жыл бұрын
brownwaterboys
@MrHeepspo6 жыл бұрын
"ice age"... lol.
@Ellensburg446 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the laugh.
@galacticwizard5442 Жыл бұрын
60 years ago my grandfather and his friends shot .22s at eachother playing cowboys and Indians at the giant rocks.