- This event has passed.
The Geology of Sunset Highway
April 9, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00 PM, at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 S. Mission, Wenatchee. Or via Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84520197937 Webinar ID: 845 2019 7937
Dr. Earl F. Cater, Director of the Douglas County Museum in Waterville, will present “The Geology of Sunset Highway.” Topics he will discuss include:
• Early Euro-American explorations of the Big Bend country
• Difficulty in getting to Douglas County because of elevation and size
• Barriers to Euro-American settlement: Rocks and no roads, Banks Lake area’s 800-feet high basalt cliffs, Corbaley Canyon’s fractured gneiss and schist, rockslides from basalt layers
• Obstacles from glaciation: Yeager Rock and multiple haystack rocks and other glacial features
• The first stage in Okanogan, March 1884: The Jack Smith story;
• 1913 Declaration of the Sunset Highway as the Red Trail: