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A few more trip photos…here’s Upper Grand Coulee (the geological feature, not the dam), with a side excursion to a little grotto on the east side of Upper Grand Coulee. Note that Grand Coulee is a dry watercourse that’s filled with water — the Bureau of Reclamation has dammed both ends of Upper Grand Coulee and uses it as a reservoir to supplement the dam head at Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia. That lake is called Banks Lake, and has no natural water sources nor outlets.
These coulees are difficult to photograph because there’s no way to show scale, and my camera doesn’t have the wide-angle capacity. They’re dry river channels, cut into (relatively) shallow canyons by the Missoula Floods. So Upper Grand Coulee is a mile or more wide in some places, and 500-600 feet deep at the walls. What these photos fail to convey is the majestic scale of the thing.
We pulled off at one point and explored a grotto where a tiny stream came over the canyon wall, flowing down from the Palouse to the east.
Here is a satellite photo of Banks Lake/Upper Grand Coulee, along the midpoint between the dams.
Posted: 9:17 am Sun July 09 2006 |
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