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Explore and Discover How Our Amazing Region was Formed!

Field Trips, Presentations and Other Events are designed to educate, entertain and leave you with a sense of “wow” along with providing fascinating information about the Ice Age Floods. 

Upcoming IAFI Events Calendar

Ice Age Floods Institute Events Inspire, Encourage Exploration, Offer Friendship and Involvement

Activities

Field Trips and Hikes are led by amateur and professional Geologists with new and amazing information to share. They are fun, exciting and informative outdoor adventures for the entire Family to enjoy!

Visit our Activities Event Calendar below for IAFI Field Trips, Hikes and other activities in your area, and go have a great time!

Upcoming Activities
September 2026
Sep 23
September 23, 2026
Whitman County Library,
102 South Main St.
Colfax, WA 99111 United States
Sep 26
September 26, 2026
Cle Elum Lake,
47° 15' 10.0800" N 121° 3' 47.3400" W
Cle Elum, WA United States
October 2026
Oct 10
October 10, 2026
Doris Morrison Learning Center (DMLC),
1330 S Henry Road
Greenacres, Washington 99016

Presentations

We offer indoor Presentations, especially popular when heat or cold make outdoor Field Trips too uncertain or uncomfortable. Many Presentations are available via Zoom.

We also offer programs for schools, senior centers and  similar organizations to educate and stimulate minds about the Ice Age Floods.

Upcoming Presentations
September 2026
Sep 26
September 26, 2026
Cle Elum Lake,
47° 15' 10.0800" N 121° 3' 47.3400" W
Cle Elum, WA United States
October 2026
Oct 10
October 10, 2026
Doris Morrison Learning Center (DMLC),
1330 S Henry Road
Greenacres, Washington 99016
August 2027

Other events

Other Events such as meetings, festivals, conventions and gatherings, with various public and private organizations, help us tell the story of the Ice Age Floods, Geology, Wildlife and History.

We often have our ‘Store in a Box‘ at these types of events where people can view and purchase IAFI merchandise.

Other Upcoming events

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Relive Past Articles

Jökulhlaups in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

A recent Smithsonian Magazine article gives some interesting insights to present-day Jökulhlaups (glacial outburst floods) that are but minuscule relatives of the cataclysmic Ice Age Floods. Iceberg Lake was on the edge of a western tributary of the Tana Glacier, but in 1999 the lake suddenly vanished. Dammed on its

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13,000 Year-Old Human Footprints Found on BC Island

Big feet. Little feet. A heel here. A toe there. A digitally enhanced photo of a footprint found at Calvert Island, British Columbia that researchers dated to 13,000 years old. Credit Duncan McLaren Stamped across the shoreline of Calvert Island, British Columbia, are 13,000-year-old human footprints that archaeologists believe to be

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Grand Coulee Dam Story

1918 story in the Wenatchee World that Bill Dietrich (former Columbian reporter and later with The Seattle Times) says in his wonderful 1995 book Northwest Passage — The Great Columbia River , “is probably the single most famous newspaper article in Pacific Northwest history. . . It is generally credited

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Ice Age Map Pacific NW

Ice Age Flood Simulation Video

An interesting, 4 minute captioned video from UC Santa Cruz (ingomar200) of a satellite-view computer simulation illustrating flood paths and transient lakes of an Ice Age Flood. The video shows a physics-based computer simulation of the Great Flood from Glacial Lake Missoula about 15,000 years ago. At the time, an ice dam

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Ice Age Floods’ Features

This is an amazing compilation of extra ordinary photographs that have been expertly labeled to assist the viewer’s understanding of the evidence supporting the creation of the Channelled Scablands in Eastern Washington State, USA.  The photographs are panned and zoomed in and out on providing an overview and close-ups of

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Mammoth and Horse DNA Rewrite Ice Age Extinctions

New research reveals the ancient animals survived some 8,000 years later than previously thought Frozen soil samples collected around a decade ago are rewriting our understanding of iconic Ice Age animals like the woolly mammoth. The soil samples were pulled from Canada’s permafrost in the early 2010s, but no work

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