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It took two days to cross that ashen scabland.

“No one with an eye for land forms can cross eastern Washington in daylight without encountering and being impressed by the “scabland.”

But Bretz’s idea was intriguing enough that in 1977 the Geological Society of Washington organized a meeting to discuss the “Channeled Scabland and the Spokane Flood“.

It is 150 miles north by car from Las Vegas, in a vast expanse of utterly empty scabland, desert and mountain, and signs reading “No gas station next 150 miles.”

From Flood Myth to Martian Megafloods “No one with an eye for land forms can cross eastern Washington in daylight without encountering and being impressed by the “scabland.”