Growing up in yakima I thought it was just a fun place to hang out with family and friends, I didn't think it was that special of a canyon, but now I do

Cool! Another Roadside Geology I hadn't seen! Thanks, Nick!

You just blew my mind when you picked up that pebble and said it's the first time the sun shined on that spot in 5 million years.

Thank you Nick for all you do, I enjoy your videos daily and rewatch them over and over!

Nick, great job with the many video series, my aunt and uncle both attended CWU and taught in the upper county for decades. After their passing I stayed in the county for a few years and watching your videos have answered my many geological questions of Washington state. As an underground miner I am always learning and curious about geology/geotechnical related information whether it be northern Idaho, Washington, Chile or Mongolia. Thank you for being a great educator!

Greatest teacher ever

I made a day trip out of this today on my motorcycle!! Fantastic story!!

I love the Yakima Canyon area! I used to inner tube down the river and ride my bike back and forth from Ellensburg to Yakima in the 80s. I didn't know much of what you explained as a college student while attending CWU. Thanks for giving the historical, cultural and geologic background of one of my favorite stomping grounds! Even Craigs Hill was cool. =)

I found that pictures and video don't do the canyon justice. It's hard to realize how steep the walls are and how high the hills are unless you are there. You have to see it in person to believe it, to realize the scope and enormity of it. Good job Nick!

Nick, you do excellent videos on the great state of Washington! Very educational

You've got the best job in the world! What could possibly be better than what you do? Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic videos that you have put together

I was alway facinated with the stream table in college back in the 80's.

Good stuff!!!

The rivers are like a bandsaw to geological uplift.

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nuther great vid!

How about the lower valley where the Yakima river seems to shift every season?

Very uplifting.

Next reasoning is faulty, the reason being is if you have the river first and then an uplift of solid rock it's going to stop the river as well as change the course entirely.

More than a Rock-Hound. Where we live there is an annual Gem & Mineral Show that is extremely exciting to us. I will try to help in others seeing your posts.

i am pretty new to the northwest and highly interested in the information you are providing. @7:58 you mention "manastash ridge" .. is there a good place to learn these types of names for places through out washington? or does it just take years and years of reading and research to begin to build this type of knowledge?

The example that Nick uses for River formation notice he's using soft sand, this is not the case with much of the Yakima River which is solid Rock

I've been trying to tell people for years that the egg came before the chicken, lol

What is your take on the rattlesnake ridge fault area

I see deposits like that at 7,000 ft near Taos, NM. Am i crazy?

If the ridges lifted then why didn’t the river lift also? Perhaps the river continued to cut downward as the ridges lifted?

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I knew there was something fishy about that canyon the first time I drove through it.

the big flood sultan had was sure something in jan

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Geologists only talk and think in millions of years. They have different methods for determining the age of rock layers. However, there is one small problem. Ancient books tell us that a cycle of natural disasters threatens the earth and all living things. The cause of this cycle of disasters is a ninth planet in our solar system orbiting the sun in an eccentric orbit. Features of the natural disaster include a massive tidal wave, higher than the highest mountain, flooding, storms, rain, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and a fiery asteroid bombardment. That planet is surrounded by a gigantic twisting cloud of dust and meteorites. That cloud obscures the atmosphere, pollutes the water and covers the whole planet Earth with that dust. At the end of the crossing of this planet 9, the earth is covered with a horizontal layer of wet mud, a mixture of sand, clay, lime, fossils of sea and land animals, shells and the deposit of that dust cloud and asteroids. So every layer on our planet contains material with the same antiquity, perhaps many millions of years old: the deposit of extraterrestrial clay. If you don't know about this cycle, you have no idea how our history has evolved. To learn much more about planet 9, the recurring flood cycle and its timeline, the re-creation of civilizations and ancient high technology, read the e-book: "Planet 9 = Nibiru". It can be read on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Search: invisible nibiru 9

Good enough, but could be better without lengthy explanations of ancient myths, which don't deal with natural science and reality. If they did, then why not give equal time to the Noah's Flood myth, which Young Earth Creationists think did all this shaping 4,000 years ago? No, just stick with the actual geological forces. Nothing else needed.