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Posted: 03 Nov 2007

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Palouse Falls

Palouse Falls
Water ... a rare thing in the channeled scab lands of Washington State.

On February 12, 2014 the Washington State House of Representatives passed HB 2119 unanimously to make Palouse Falls the official state waterfall in Washington State. The proposal for the bill originated when a group of elementary school students in the nearby town of Washtucna lobbied the state legislature.[11]

On April 21, 2009, Tyler Bradt ran the falls in a kayak setting an unofficial world record for the highest waterfall run. Bradt's media agent released the video footage of him dropping over the falls to Sports Illustrated, who carried it on their website.[8][9] The magazine carried a two-page photo of the feat in its May 18 issue. The photos were also reproduced in Spain's Hola magazine's international issue of September 23, 2009.

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 Shuttering Yukon
Shuttering Yukon
well that sure is a beauty place Norm
10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to Shuttering Yukon
Thanks Wendi! You might like this video of the falls:

www.dump.com/highestwaterfall
10 years ago.
Shuttering Yukon has replied to Indycaver (Norm) club
holy crap... that was sick! I thought the guy died in there... I was holding my breath the whole time!
10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to Shuttering Yukon
Makes you want to run out and buy a barrel and head for Niagara Falls? :-) I can't imagine what he was thinking ... that's a huge drop!
10 years ago.
Shuttering Yukon has replied to Indycaver (Norm) club
I grew up near there and many a person died doing stoopid, stoopid stunts at the falls! I find and hey no prejudicism here.... men tend to not 'think things through' the way women do.
10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to Shuttering Yukon
Some are married ... and looking for a way out! :-)
10 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Indycaver (Norm) club
lol Norm! :D
10 years ago.
Shuttering Yukon has replied to Indycaver (Norm) club
*were* married, there has to be a less permanent way out!?!?!
just a thought?
10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to Shuttering Yukon
It is the only permanent way out ... unless she takes the barrel first! :-)
10 years ago.
 H C
H C
Beautiful falls and I like the bit of a rainbow in the spray.
10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to H C
Thanks Harriet! It was shot with my first digital camera and is a little on the grainy side. The rainbow at the base of the falls was far better in person! :-)
10 years ago.
 Karen's Place
Karen's Place club
Norm, this is incredible and I live here in WA and never even heard of these falls. I was on the edge of my seat wondering if I even wanted to finish the video clip with that ominous music. His poor mom!! I am so glad my son is not a thrill seeker. I just want to spank him!

Oh, great photo btw! :)
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to Karen's Place club
They are in the channeled scablands in eastern Washington. I flew in over them on my way to Seattle and they were really impressive from the air! The photo was taken from the ground though. A glacier in Montana would dam up the Missoula valley forming a large lake. Periodically ... the lake would breach the ice dam and send cataclysmic floods across the Columbia River plateau forming the scablands.
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Indycaver (Norm) club
Thanks for the info on the scablands Norm.

I lived in Missoula for the summer once back in the 70s. I love it there. What glacier was that Norm?
10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to Karen's Place club
I don't know that it had a name. The lake was the result of an ice dam on the Clark Fork caused by the southern encroachment of a finger of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet into the Idaho Panhandle (at the present day location of Clark Fork, Idaho at the east end of Lake Pend Oreille). The height of the ice dam typically approached 610 metres (2,000 ft), flooding the valleys of western Montana approximately 320 kilometres (200 mi) eastward. It was the largest ice-dammed lake known to have occurred.
10 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Indycaver (Norm) club
Well, dam. That's an impressive feat. Thank you Norm.
10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to Karen's Place club
It's also a story of perseverance ... the geologists Pardee and Bretz spent 40 years convincing the geologic community that the channeled scablands were the result of outburst flooding. Some of the most prominent glacial geologists of the time initially told them they were crazy, but in the end ... they finally agreed that their theories were right.
10 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Indycaver (Norm) club
I love people that can persevere like that Norm. They really teach us all.
10 years ago.
 Gillian Everett
Gillian Everett club
Crazy person, amazing video. Those falls are spectacular, Norm!
10 years ago.
Indycaver (Norm) club has replied to Gillian Everett club
Thanks Gillian! I was there in 2003 and I could not imagine some one going over the falls on purpose!
10 years ago.
 Fred Fouarge
Fred Fouarge club
nice douche
6 years ago.

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