Riding Geologist wanted

[lamble]

I've a trip that I'm planning for next year starting in June. Keeping with the Tea rides theme, I'm calling this one Iced Tea. I want to ride the course that the Missoula Lake floods took during the Ice Age.

Again, I'll film and stop and take tea with folk, but I'd like to have a riding buddy that could point out the fascinating features.

Any one able to dedicate some time to this...GS preferable as there'll be some off- roading involved. And if you are handy with a camera too, all the better.

I've not said where this is, because if you don't know where Lake Missoula is, or was, then you are probably not who I'm looking for.

[Gilly]

I know a guy in Oklahoma who is such a guy. Not sure what city, but it's not a large city. I have some contact info, I'm sure he'd talk about it. I believe he is currently on a Hayabusa but has toured with it. Pointed out some neat stuff on a ride in Canada.
Gilly

oh, noticed the "Seattle" part in your sig, is that really where you're from?

[108625]

lamble,

Contact us @ http://www.mtbmwriders.org. My wife just set up the new site this year.
We're a small informal group, don't care what you ride, and you might find a friendly guide or two (some of whom reside at the bottom of prehistoric lake Missoula).
Fear of another ice age and the associated flooding keeps me firmly entrenched on the east side of the divide, but we're in the anonymous book if you stray this way.

Bob

[lamble]

I'll get intouch with the folks that have been mentioned and I thank you for your prompt replies. It's early stages, as I've got to ride around S.America yet, but by next April I should be back, so may as well set wheels in motion.

Seattle-ish now, but not originally Gilly.

[podsobinski]

Could be just what I am looking for next summer. I am always looking for a new trip and never been in the that area before. I am a retired geology prof. with a GSA. Let me know.

gpodzo

[lamble]

Lamble, will you be running Permo-Pennsylvanian petroleum in your GS ?

I'm looking at a converter from gas to Dharjeeling, 55miles to the cup.

[lamble]

Could be just what I am looking for next summer. I am always looking for a new trip and never been in the that area before. I am a retired geology prof. with a GSA. Let me know.

gpodzo

This is very strange, but someone I met yesterday was telling me that there's more than just the Lake Missoula theory as to the Scablands geological characteristics. I'd only heard of the Ice dam and floods theory. I'd like to investigate the other theories and if possible share a tea with their formers.

Anyway, perhaps we can bring a few threads together. Start with Bob's Lake bottom dwellers (that's not intended to sound detrimental) then do a group trundle for a while.

What I'd like to do, which may or may not be possible, is visit parts of the route at different times of the year.
Now getting across the Cascades in Winter 2009 may not be a possibility, however, I'd love to have content showing that season's effects of the geography.

Is anyone that side of the range. Perhaps we can pull a team together for this. Thoughts?

[laguna]

Greetings, acquire a few books by the naturalist writer John McPhee and you will get a well written intro to new world geology, Two of his titles are- Assembling California and
Basin and Range. The latter title will fit perfectly with your upcoming tour,

[lamble]

Greetings, acquire a few books by the naturalist writer John McPhee and you will get a well written intro to new world geology, Two of his titles are- Assembling California and
Basin and Range. The latter title will fit perfectly with your upcoming tour,

I will look them out and do some bookworming, thanks for the lead.

[JK]

This is very strange, but someone I met yesterday was telling me that there's more than just the Lake Missoula theory as to the Scablands geological characteristics. I'd only heard of the Ice dam and floods theory. I'd like to investigate the other theories and if possible share a tea with their formers.

Anyway, perhaps we can bring a few threads together. Start with Bob's Lake bottom dwellers (that's not intended to sound detrimental) then do a group trundle for a while.

What I'd like to do, which may or may not be possible, is visit parts of the route at different times of the year.
Now getting across the Cascades in Winter 2009 may not be a possibility, however, I'd love to have content showing that season's effects of the geography.

Is anyone that side of the range. Perhaps we can pull a team together for this. Thoughts?

Colorado College has a fine Geology Department:

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/gy/paul_pub_guide.asp

Hit the Faculty tab to find the answers you need.


J.K. :wow

P.S. A friend and next door neighbor of mine was Department Head, but recently passed away. Lake Missoula was nearly the size of Superior. Similar Ice Age events are postulated for the Med, Black, and Caspian Sea areas.

Professor Eric Leonard seems to be the guy specializing in your area of interest.

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/gy/faculty_eric_leonard.asp

[lamble]

Colorado College has a fine Geology Department:

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/gy/paul_pub_guide.asp

Hit the Faculty tab to find the answers you need.


J.K. :wow

P.S. A friend and next door neighbor of mine was Department Head, but recently passed away. Lake Missoula was nearly the size of Superior. Similar Ice Age events are postulated for the Med, Black, and Caspian Sea areas.

Professor Eric Leonard seems to be the guy specializing in your area of interest.

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/gy/faculty_eric_leonard.asp

Gosh!

I am touched and somewhat taken aback JK.
It's a sad indictment of our previous dealings, that I should be shocked at your civility. Well, I am truly flabbergasted.

eeerrr, Thank You!

[lamble]

http://lamble.smugmug.com/photos/377134355_GvZpF-L.jpg

This is a shot near the base of the Dry Falls. At this point with the cliffs at 900ft, I would have been approximately 1200 feet below the surface.
This is the Grand Coulee, there being several other coulees, almost as big. The scale of these dry falls is immense and I believe many multiples the size of Niagara.

[108625]

Anyway, perhaps we can bring a few threads together. Start with Bob's Lake bottom dwellers (that's not intended to sound detrimental) then do a group trundle for a while.

What I'd like to do, which may or may not be possible, is visit parts of the route at different times of the year.
Now getting across the Cascades in Winter 2009 may not be a possibility, however, I'd love to have content showing that season's effects of the geography.

lamble,

I'll mention your quest at our next gathering (We don't have meetings, vote on anything, or take minutes...we just show up for lunch.) I'm sure some of our valley residents or west slopers can be of assistance.

Bob

[lamble]

lamble,

I'll mention your quest at our next gathering (We don't have meetings, vote on anything, or take minutes...we just show up for lunch.) I'm sure some of our valley residents or west slopers can be of assistance.

Bob

Bob,

If nothing else, it would be good to share a tea or three, with some folk who live at the bottom of the former lake and hear how the geology and geography colour their perspective's on life.

[Montana]

I'm about 100' above the valley floor. PBS recently aired a program from 2005 or 2006, it's very thorough and great fun to watch the computer-generated imagery of what it looked like.

I'd be glad to help with route planning and might be interested in riding some of the route with you. For the Spokane rally, the ON articles covered riding through some of this region. You might try to find the articles. I really like the perspective you get as you ride over the lateral and terminal moraines, rather than riding along the river.

[lamble]

I'm about 100' above the valley floor. PBS recently aired a program from 2005 or 2006, it's very thorough and great fun to watch the computer-generated imagery of what it looked like.

I'd be glad to help with route planning and might be interested in riding some of the route with you. For the Spokane rally, the ON articles covered riding through some of this region. You might try to find the articles. I really like the perspective you get as you ride over the lateral and terminal moraines, rather than riding along the river.

I hope to renew this idea when I return from my S.America trip next April time.
I will look for this thread again then and hopefully we can pull the strands together and have a ride ready for June/July/August time.
Thank you for the offer of help Montana...keep thinking about it...

Cheers.

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