| Summary: | This view of the Grand Coulee, taken from the west wall several miles below Steamboat Rock, vividly portrays the immensity and grandeur of this unique chasm. This remarkable canyon, and its counterpart, Moses Coulee, cut by the drainage from the 4,000 foot thick Okanogan Lobe of the great ice cap, some ten or twelve miles to the southwest, are without like or equal in the world. A mile above Steamboat Rock the retreating falls encountered a ridge of granite some 500 feet high. The water carved this into one of the rugged and spectacular parts of the Coulee proper; many parts being still capped with black basalt. Here in the dim haze of prehistoric times nature performed feats of epic proportions; alternately tender and healing, then again magnificently turbulent and terrifying. Looking South down the Columbia River.
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