(At vie point at the Chasm, 10 miles north of Clinton on the old highway.  Leave Highway 97, 7 miles north of Clinton)

At the close of the Ice Age about 10,000 years ago, a stream fed by melting ice cascaded over a falls forming this chasm by cutting into some of the lava flows that helped to build the Fraser Plateau.  Individual lava flows are shown here by the horizontal layering.  When the glacial ice finally disappeared the flow of meltwater stopped.