This big beauty got dropped off near Lynnwood after hitching a ride on the Cordilleran ice sheet. Look upon her and salivate:
Yes. That is me, sitting on a convenient little niche in this maclargehuge boulder. I’m 5’6″, for scale. And yes, I’m sitting comfortably.
See? Perfectly comfy. Of course, from certain angles…
Now, those pictures are from its craggy side, and it makes the thing look kinda small. It’s not kinda small. It’s actually massive:
I dare any geologist to resist doing the Vanna thing when they’ve got a subject like this:
I’ve got some very nice close-up shots of this beauty I’ll share later. The temptation to post this immediately proved overwhelming.
And everybody say thankees to my intrepid companion for doing the photographer thing so you guys could have moi for scale.
2 comments
Nina
July 19, 2011 at 12:59 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Holy cow! Reminds me of the rock in the Columbia River gorge between Washington and Oregon.
Dan McShane
July 20, 2011 at 10:10 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yet another geo blogger begans acting erratically. And I love the word ginormous