"Washington Rocks!" Geology Hike with Chad Pritchard

  Guided Hike at Dishman Hills Natural Area with Geologist Chad Pritchard

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This is a 20 person hike and requires registration in advance. Please email Ruth Gifford at events@dishmanhills.org if you are having any difficulties with registration.

Take a hike with Chad Pritchard, EWU geology professor and co-author of the book “Washington Rocks!” to chat about the forces that fractured the 100 to 50 million year old granitic rocks of the Deep Ravine area at Dishman Hills.  Then continue up to the ponds to talk about surface and groundwater. All along the way we can use geology to discuss how these amazing outcroppings of rocks formed in the earth’s crust, rapidly (in a geologic sense) brought to the Earth’s surface, and then scoured by Ice Age mega floods.

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We will meet at 8602 E Appleway Ave at the dirt parking lot. This hike is easy for most and includes  a distance of 2.5 miles, going up and down steep rock steps, and up long gradual slopes with about 300 feet elevation gain.  Please bring water and sturdy shoes, and consider wearing long pants as poison ivy is present along this trail. Please pre-register for this hike.