Here are some photos from this year's epic Contact at the Cataracts event with Randall Carlson and friends, including members of the podcasting teams from the Grimerica Showand the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast. It was wonderful to meet new friends and reconnect with old ones during this week's adventure.

We explored the amazing Channeled Scablands of Washington State, scene of mega flooding catastrophes from the end of the last Ice Age, floods that may have been triggered by an impactor from outer space such as a comet, as argued by Randall and by Graham Hancock and by the scientists in the Comet Research Group, sometimes referred to as the Younger Dryas Impact Theory.

As Randall explained, catastrophic geology is everywhere on our planet, but here in the Channeled Scablands region the unique conditions set the stage for an unusually dramatic result. 

The events of the Younger Dryas may have ended a culture or cultures on Earth now forgotten to conventional history -- perhaps the source of the ancient system of celestial metaphor which forms the foundation for the myths and sacred stories we know today, which were preserved by cultures found around the globe, on every inhabited continent and island of our planet.

I have shown that this system of celestial metaphor is already operating in the earliest surviving writings of some of the most ancient cultures known to conventional history, including the texts of the Sumerians and other cultures of Mesopotamia, and of the ancient Egyptians, and of ancient India, and ancient China and Japan, and so on around the world -- suggesting that its origin and source lies far deeper in history, at a time that was already so ancient to those cultures that it was perhaps even more ancient to them than they are to us.

The scale of the catastrophe was simply enormous -- as evidenced by the geological record found here at the Scablands, and echoed in geological features around the world.

Enormous “haystack” boulders left by the melting glaciers.

One of the Drumheller Channels scoured out by the massive Mega Flood meltwater flows.

High atop Steptoe Butte overlooking the rolling Palouse.

Didgeridoo, overlooking the massive 500-foot cliffs of Potholes Cataract.

Kyle of the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast (and the band 50 Dollar Dynasty) on the catwalk over Dry Falls Cataract, Lower Grand Coulee.

Wyatt from Michigan atop columnar basalts in the Grand Coulee region.

Randall explaining the Mega Flood geology of the Banks Lake region, Upper Grand Coulee.

Sunset on the final day of this year's event, Kyle and myself atop a boulder left at the very top of Steamboat Rock, Upper Grand Coulee.