The Palouse Hills area of eastern Washington is unique in that they were created over tens of thousands of years from wind blown dust called loess. This land turned out to be very fertile for the growing of wheat and barley, and the hills are covered with these fields.
Near the crossroads town of Washtucna is an old bus that, much like Cadillac Ranch, people come along and paint it, over and over again.
Palouse Falls is a 200′ high waterfalls situated in a 377′ deep canyon, shaped like a huge bowl. It is very impressive.
The overlook has a large number of marmot’s.
Birds seemed to like to ride the updrafts from the falls.
Just down the road (and river) is the confluence of the Snake and Palouse rivers at Lyons Ferry. There is an impressive road bridge crossing the Snake.
Just down river is the more impressive rail bridge, which we had the good fortunate of catching a long freight train crossing.
The Palouse Hills is a very scenic area far from any large cities.
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