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Todd Cutts

Sep 28, 2026

2:57
You don't even hear the freeway anymore, and it's really wild that that asset is just so accessible, and especially because of that private nature of it.
3:08
Ab- absolutely, and I think one of the really cool things, there's one component, I'm literally staring out my window right now at our upper pedestrian bridge, where people are lined up 30 deep across the bridge, watching the salmon run this time of the year, which is an amazing spectacle onto itself.
3:24
So that visceral feeling that you get when you're exposed to it, but what people don't understand, too, after that first take, is if you scratch beneath the surface here and start to understand how this place started to take shape over the last few decades, but it's not just decades, it's hundreds of years, even thousands of years, millions of years even, that story is so compelling.
3:48
When we talk about Tumwater Falls overall, we have crescent basalt here that was formed by these huge lava flows 56 million years ago.
3:58
So what we're standing on today and what the river is cascading over was formed 56 million years ago, and the glacier that started the formation of this canyon was 2.6 million years ago.
4:11
So this space is older than us sitting here today.
4:56
Mm
4:56
... for, for the running of the salmon.

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