All Over The Map: Mysterious handprints and footprints in ancient lava

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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