Ice Age Floods Tour
7 days, 6 nights, 1,000 miles, 17 stops — only 8 spots available!
We are inviting you to join us on an ALL-INCLUSIVE 7-day expedition following the full path of the colossal Ice Age floods that reshaped the Northwest
— Only $1,795 Per Person! — $250 Discount Available —
Nearly 15,000 years ago, where Montana and Idaho meet, a massive ice dam at the end of colossal Lake Missoula collapsed. In a series of repeated floods, the lake emptied, sending surges of water across future eastern Washington state.
Each flood had a water flow 10 times that of all the rivers in the world combined. Walls of water nearly 800 ft high carved massive coolies and drilled potholes into the basaltt. It carried giant boulders hundreds of miles.
The remaining landscape is called the Scablands.
The idea for this tour started on a quiet paddle on the Palouse River. Canyon walls were glowing. Everything was still. And one of us said, "How could we experience the ice age floods?"
Not a quick overlook, not a day trip, the full path.
That one little spark then turned into an email.
That email turned into a list.
And then before we knew it, we had a spreadsheet that was starting to shape up into a full-blown expedition.
Flood outburst origins, coolies carved in minutes, spillways miles wide, dry falls the size of cities.
So here's the route. Here's the plan. And here's where you're coming with us.
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**Route and Itinerary subject to change**
Sept 13 - Spokane to Farragut State Park
We start in Spokane. A quick meetup, gear check, everybody gets introduced.
Then we point the whole convoy towards Idaho.
Farragut State Park sits just below where the Lake Missoula ice dam failed.
It's ground zero for the whole story.
This is a glacial basin where the floods widened and deepened. You see the steep embankments, carved benches, sudden shelves, all the fingerprints that water left.
We paddled that basin, then camp under the pines. The calm start to an epic story.
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Sept 14 - Bowl and Pitcher to Two Rivers Resort
Bowl and pitcher is a crash course in flood erosion. Basalt columns cracked open, potholes drilled by abrasive sediment, plucked faces ripped clean.
You can look at this stuff and immediately understand the physics.
After we visit the Bowl and Pitcher, then we're going to start working our way really out into the heart of the scablands.
We're going to go down to where the Spokane River met the Columbia River and these flood waters clashed together.
High velocity flow created long terraces, flood bars, teardrop islands, all these classic mega flood shapes.
On our second night after we've seen where these two rivers clash, we actually get to camp above on one of those flood carved terraces.
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Sept 15 - Grand Coulee to Banks Lake to Dry Falls
The Grand Coulee is just ridiculous. sheer walls, straight lines. It's a canyon so oversized it looks like it must be artificial.
We'll take a hike over the Candy Point Trail, short, steep, and absolutely packed with features, benches, scoured shelves, wrapped columns.
It feels like drifting down a giant flood spillway.
Dry Falls is the biggest fossil waterfall on Earth. It's 3 and 1/2 miles wide, hundreds of feet high.
It was carved in minutes, hours, or days, not millennia. Just crazy.
We explore the rim. The plunge basins, the ledges, the smooth faces.
The story here is obvious even after 10,000 years
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Sept 16 - Moses & Frenchmen's Coulee to the Hanford Reach
Moses Coulee hits fast. One second you're in rolling farmland, the next you're swallowed by vertical basalt walls.
The coulee floor is stripped clean...classic mega flood scouring.
You can see the benches cut into the cliffs. The walls are plucked and fractured.
Just beyond the Moses Coulee is a small community of Palisades. It's a perfect little spot tucked under giant red cliffs on our journey to Frenchman's Coulee.
Frenchman's Coulee really has everything. You've got polished bedrock, U-shaped spillways, broken columns, stranded boulders.
It's one of the cleanest mega flood landscapes anywhere.
We're going to get a unique experience, which is to explore the Hanford Reach area of the Columbia River. The Reach is actually the last free flowing section of the Columbia River before it meets the Pacific Ocean...there's dams all the way down the rest of the way and it's a very cool area.
It's near the historic Hanford nuclear site and It's near the White Bluffs area which is a spectacularly beautiful part of the river.
We'll have an opportunity to actually paddle down that section and or hike along the White Bluffs. Seeing it from both angles will be just a really cool experience. You will see where the flood scoured through and left the braided islands.
We end this epic day at Desert Air where we're going to camp under the stars and we're going to absolutely enjoy the vibes of the White Bluffs. We're going to have some fun. We're going to tell some stories and we're going to finish out the day in style.
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Sept 17 - Badger Mountain to Wallula Gap
Badger Mountain and its Trail System sit inside the temporary lake that formed when the floods backed up behind Wallula Gap.
Along the way, we pass high water lines and ice wrapped erratics, which are rocks carried in by icebergs floating on Lake Lewis.
From the top, it makes sense. The basin spreads out behind you. Wallula Gap tightens the whole system in front of you.
Wallula Gap is the bottleneck. That's where the bedrock was so narrow it forced the floods to back up into Lake Lewis.
We will be paddling right into that constriction. It's a mile and a half wide canyon that is considered the bottleneck to progress in this whole story.
It's mind-numbing to wrap your mind around the fact it took several days for the water to get through that HUGE canyon. It filled over the 800t cliffs up there!
Wallula gap is a spectacular and dramatic place to be. We'll get to paddle through those 800 ft walls thinking about that epic journey that brought us there.
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Sept 18 - Walla Walla Winery to Lyons Ferry
Walla Walla sits on loess hills. The flood waters backed up and covered this area, but did not scour the hills away. Instead the floodwaters left smooth rolling landscapes.
It's kind of like the control group. It's what the scablands looked like before the water hit.
At Lyons Ferry, the Snake River has broad terraces, gravel bars, and calm lagoons. You can really see exactly how the floods shaped everything here. At Lion's Ferry KOA, we camp on a wide terrace above the water on a perfect last night, surrounded by those dramatic cliffs
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Sept 19 - Palouse Falls and the Return to Spokane
Palouse Falls is a beautiful example. It's kind of a smaller version of Dry Falls, but you can actually see the waterfall in it.
From the trails and observations points are spectacular views of the columns, the plunge pool and nearly 200 feet of white falling water.
The drive back is the dividing line between what was destroyed during the floods and what wasn't.
it's a beautiful view to end our tour. Direct Registration LINK HERE or Register by phone +1 (509) 520-0428
What do YOU get on the Ice Age Floods Tour?
Paddle remote river corridors, hike towering coulees, and camp in landscapes carved by some of the largest floods ever known to science.
You get days of paddling across basins carved by floods, real water, real terrain. And
That's paddling in a kayak or a paddle board, whichever you prefer.
Long days, big miles, raw terrain, and stories written in stone.
You get hikes into coolies, spillways, benches, cliffs. We'll explore the biggest flood carve features in the region.
You will get nights under the stars on wide terraces shaped by the ancient water.
Experience the Scablands the way they were meant to be seen.
This tour is all inclusive once we hit the road from Spokane...Everything is covered except for a couple of personal things. just bring your own sleeping bag and your backpack!
We'll have everything else!!!
We have good sleeping pads, all the tents, all the cooking gear, all the camp stuff.
We'll cover all the food, gear, paddleboards, kayaks, paddles and life jackets it's all included.
You'll get time with our small group together.
We'll have space to explore.
We'll have that real geology under our feet and see the this part of the Northwest in a way that almost nobody does.
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Are YOU In?
The Ice Age Floods Tour costs $1,795 per person.
You will not find this quality of all-inclusive tour for $256 a day anywhere else.
A deposit of $250 is required to hold your spot.
If you have read this far and still want in.
Here's our gift to you!
Take $250 off the overall price of the trip by using the code ICE AGE. Valid until 7/4/2026
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