Check this out. More Oregon weirdness (it isn't just MR).
It's a low-lying area in the snowy Cascades with three lava tubes in the bottom of it, like drains!
In the spring, snow melt in the Cascades fills the low area faster than the three drains can drain it, so it becomes a shallow lake or pond. Then later in the season, when the mountain streams slow down as the mountain snow disappears, the water disappears down into the holes, turning what's know locally as "Lost Lake" into a grassy meadow until the next spring, when the cycle repeats.
Apparently there's a whole cave system down there with underground streams and stuff. There's almost certainly life in it. (Imagine if human beings were swept into the holes thousands of years ago and survived and reproduced down there. All albino-y and eyeless in the dark.)
http://www.opb.org/television/programs/o...ean-river/
It's a low-lying area in the snowy Cascades with three lava tubes in the bottom of it, like drains!
In the spring, snow melt in the Cascades fills the low area faster than the three drains can drain it, so it becomes a shallow lake or pond. Then later in the season, when the mountain streams slow down as the mountain snow disappears, the water disappears down into the holes, turning what's know locally as "Lost Lake" into a grassy meadow until the next spring, when the cycle repeats.
Apparently there's a whole cave system down there with underground streams and stuff. There's almost certainly life in it. (Imagine if human beings were swept into the holes thousands of years ago and survived and reproduced down there. All albino-y and eyeless in the dark.)
http://www.opb.org/television/programs/o...ean-river/