Mysterious footprints and handprints in an ancient lava bed in southwest Washington near Mount Adams have inspired Indigenous origin stories for millennia and confounded settlers for more than a century.
The prints are in Goose Lake, near a campground that’s part of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The lake is about a four-hour drive from Seattle, and not far from the Columbia River Gorge in the shadow of Mount Adams – one of Washington’s lesser-known, though no less majestic, volcanoes.
Though once on dryland, the prints are now almost always underwater. They consist of one set of human footprints and handprints in the old lava – now basalt –
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