Fish Lake Bike Trail

This is a separate page because the fish lake bike trail is pretty long and used by alot of people plus it has good geology and different ways to do it. The easiest and best way is to take the bus out to Cheney for $1.50 and pop over to the trail and simply ride downhill the entire way back to town.  Here is the path and a video after--then more pictures:

In the video I point with what looks like bum gloves--I have many pairs of new gloves. I cut off the fingers because I cannot operate the camera otherwise.

heres the location of a big foot track in the basalt:

The picture above is very important. It is classic "Latah formation". I am trying to get a geologist to file a report on the fish lake trail because the geology has now become more important that large numbers of people are using the trail and wondering about what they see. The issue with these deposits is when the lava flowed over them--was it a mass of mud or was it already dried out like rock?

HERE IS A VIDEO ONLY OF THE LAYERS-->

These layers are well known as St Helens deposits. They are not from the ice age floods. They WERE NOT exposed because of the floods. They were formed in modern times. These layers are common soil from the past few thousand years. I dont know if there is a term or not but these layers were deposited from volcanic eruptions IN MODERN TIMES. (no that dosent mean 20 years ago--we are talking in the last ten thousand or so years.)

When you ride the fish lake trail queen ann lake--is little more than a small shallow wet area between 2 sets of train tracks. It is scabland geology. It is turnbull wildlife geology. (trapped pockets of water than cannot drain down)