In a Picture Perfect Grassy Plateau, Our View Is Marred With a Double Dose of Electric Power Poles!
“Soon we leave the river and the old sleepy buildings and now climb to some sort of a dry, meadowy plateau. The road rolls and bumps and rocks so much I have to keep the speed down to fifty. There are some bad chuckholes in the asphalt and I watch carefully for more. .. We’re really accustomed to making mileage. Stretches that would have seemed long back in the Dakotas now seem short and easy. Being on the machine seems more natural than being off it. We’re nowhere that I’m familiar with, in country that I’ve never seen before, yet I don’t feel a stranger in it. .. At the top of the plateau at Grangeville, Idaho, we step from the blasting heat into an air-conditioned restaurant. Deep cool inside. While we wait for chocolate malteds .... “(Cont.Next)
Three miles East of Grangeville, ID. As this panorama starts, you see the distant buildings of the town of Grangerville. Although not evident in this photo, this is a high plateau. This high level area probably owes its existence to an old volcanic flow. This “cap” of tough volcanic rock (ancient lava) having a relatively greater resistance to being worn down has kept this area here despite some sixteen million years of weathering!
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Upload Date	:	Thu 25 Aug 2005 01:41:09 PM EDT
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