Wallula Gap
Wallula Gap is a major formation left over from the ice age Missoula floods. You ascend a bluff to 400 feet above the Columbia River. Usually you'd expect the top of such a buff to be flat or starkly contoured, but is not the case. Bare rock faces, hanging coulees, mesa and other formations I don't know the names of are present. It's easy to see how rushing water on top of the of the mesa could have caused the formations.
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looking back toward the Columbia River on the first road up the hill.
A little farther up the hill.
Depth of field experiment.
Another depth of field shot.
Looking over Lake Wallula over to the Two Sisters. Just ignore the grain elevator.
Good example of a hanging coulee
This type of carved out notch is common on the top of the mesa.
Some more shadow play
I spooked these dear as I was coming out of a coulee.
One of the last good shots of the day. I was going for the silhouette effect. Sadly I didn't have a longer lens with me.
