daemn42 | Long cruise down the Big Lost River @daemn42 | Uploaded August 2017 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Skyhunter cruising low down the Big Lost River south of Arco, ID (Notable as the very first town in the world to be powered by nuclear power, albeit for only a short time).
This is a now dry river bed that cuts through the lava flows east of Craters of the Moon National Monument. All the water that used to run through this canyon is now diverted for irrigation upstream, but even when it wasn't it only flowed for another 8-10 miles or so and then disappears into the ground and flows into an aquifer under the lava beds, reappearing about 100 miles away at Thousand Springs along the cliffs above the Snake River near Twin Falls. Pretty much all of the small rivers in the region do the same thing.
Yes it was quite windy, blowing crosswise over the river cut so quite bumpy. Couldn't be helped.
Skyhunter cruising low down the Big Lost River south of Arco, ID (Notable as the very first town in the world to be powered by nuclear power, albeit for only a short time).
This is a now dry river bed that cuts through the lava flows east of Craters of the Moon National Monument. All the water that used to run through this canyon is now diverted for irrigation upstream, but even when it wasn't it only flowed for another 8-10 miles or so and then disappears into the ground and flows into an aquifer under the lava beds, reappearing about 100 miles away at Thousand Springs along the cliffs above the Snake River near Twin Falls. Pretty much all of the small rivers in the region do the same thing.
Yes it was quite windy, blowing crosswise over the river cut so quite bumpy. Couldn't be helped.
