Photo showing first Mudslide on Highway 25 - 25 May 1962. Lake turned Blue. A car and a logging truck were smashed against each other. Two other cars, a pickup truck, three giant earth movers, three caterpillar tractors, a road grader and a drag line were heavily damaged when they slithered into the chasm. A total of 7-1/2 million tons of earth was heaved about in the eruption and hundreds of tons of blue clay were pushed down into the lake itself, turning the water a bright blue.
Photo showing first Mudslide on Highway 25 - 25 May 1962. Lake turned Blue. A car and a logging truck were smashed against each other. Two other cars, a pickup truck, three giant earth movers, three caterpillar tractors, a road grader and a drag line were heavily damaged when they slithered into the chasm. A total of 7-1/2 million tons of earth was heaved about in the eruption and hundreds of tons of blue clay were pushed down into the lake itself, turning the water a bright blue.