The Geology of Sunset Highway

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;
• 1926 Declaration of the Sunset Highway as the Yellowstone Trail.

The program is free and open to the public.

Contact information:

Dr. Earl F. Cater
Director, Douglas County Museum
efcater@gmail.com
515-371-3535

Susan D. Freiberg
Erratics Chapter Publicity
wenvalerratics@yahoo.com