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Avery Park, Washington, with Fairbanks Water Gap, Oregon.
Image taken May 24, 2004.
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Fairbanks Gap ...
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Fairbanks Water Gap and Mount Hood, Oregon.
Looking downstream from Washington State Highway 14 at Mount Hood, Oregon, visible through Fairbanks Gap.
Image taken May 24, 2005.
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Missoula Floods ...
Between 80,000 years ago and 10,000 years ago ice sheets of the "Wisconsin Glaciation" covered much of North America, including Northern Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Towards the end of this glaciation a large ice dam blocked the Clark Fork River, creating "Lake Missoula", a massive lake 2,000 feet deep and containing more than 500 cubic miles of water. Lake Missoula stretched eastward more than 200 miles and contained more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined.
Periodically, the ice dam would fail. These failures were often catastrophic, resulting in a large flood of ice- and dirt-filled water that
would rush down the Columbia River drainage, across northern Idaho and eastern and central Washington, through the Columbia
River Gorge, back up into Oregon's Willamette Valley, and finally pour into the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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Views of Fairbanks Water Gap ...
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Mount Hood as seen through Fairbanks Water Gap, Oregon.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
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Fairbanks Water Gap, Oregon.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
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Fairbanks Water Gap, Oregon.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
Image taken May 24, 2005.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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