Snake River
— a river that cut a gorge deeper than the Grand Canyon.
Not only on a wall.
“The largest tributary of the Columbia, rising in the high country of Yellowstone and running about 1,735 kilometres west and north across southern Idaho. It crosses the Snake River Plain, drops over Shoshone Falls at sixty-five metres — taller than Niagara — then bends north into Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in North America. The water reads jade-green between basalt walls, slate-grey under winter sky. from the studio
Snake River, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The Snake River is the largest tributary of the Columbia, rising at about 2,650 metres on the Two Ocean Plateau in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and running about 1,735 kilometres west across Idaho and along the Oregon-Washington border before joining the Columbia at Pasco, Washington. Its watershed covers about 280,000 square kilometres across six states. The river crosses Jackson Hole, the Snake River Plain, the Owyhee Desert, and Hells Canyon on its way to the Columbia, draining most of southern Idaho and a substantial part of Oregon's interior.
Mean discharge at the mouth is about 1,560 cubic metres per second, making the Snake the tenth-largest river in the United States by flow. At Shoshone Falls, near Twin Falls, Idaho, the river drops about 65 metres — roughly 11 metres taller than Niagara — over a horseshoe of basalt nearly 300 metres wide. The Lewis and Clark expedition reached the Snake at the mouth of the Clearwater in October 1805. Fifteen major dams have been built on the river since Minidoka was completed in 1909; the lower four remain politically contested over salmon recovery.
Most of the Snake's course runs over the Columbia River Basalts, a vast sheet of flood-basalt lavas that erupted across the Pacific Northwest between about 17 and 6 million years ago. The most dramatic section is Hells Canyon, on the Idaho-Oregon border, where the river has cut a gorge about 2,400 metres deep — the deepest river gorge in North America, deeper than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, designated by Congress in 1975, covers about 2,500 square kilometres of canyon, ridge, and tributary country managed by the U.S. Forest Service.