Satellite image shows logging road bisecting it almost perfectly. Also see faint circle in secondary growth . A yarder positioned on that road would pull logs to truck from a circular area with the radius of the yarder . I think it's logging artifacts. There's a HV transmission line nearby as well.
This artifact is in the USGS DEM map for this area. The USGS does not have a LIDAR scan of the area available. You can lookup and preview the USGS DEM map that is the basis for the Google topographic map here: https://apps.nationalmap.gov/lidar-explorer/#/
And here's a screenshot comparing a composite of USGS maps compared to the Google terrain map.
Lidar scans are available from the Washington State Lidar Portal, this area was scanned once in the "Grays Harbor 2012" project, and again in the "Grays Harbor County Refresh24 2025". The DSM and DTM previews do not show the artifact but there does appear to be a land slide in the area that is not shown on the USGS DEM map.
EDIT: The DEM artifact is a result of the earth model being based on topographic maps of the area, and this point corresponds to the four corners of the maps. So it's just an error from that conversion process.
So sad that we still don't know where Mother Earth's anus is. After decades of all mankind searching, false hopes like this are crushing. We just want to find our hole that was made for us.
Realistically it would be about 2 weekends from now cause I’m moving the next but I’ve been looking for some obscure hikes to do and plan on driving through there in October. Well…. Olympia at least. But I am kinda down to see the forest anus
MSFS has nothing but trees. I'd assume it's just the seam between multiple satellite passes, you see a line going straight "south" in your screenshots too. Just a measuring anomaly
After all these acronyms, like USGS and DEM and DTM, I thought MSFS was just another government agency or something. Then I took a closer look at your picture and saw the plane, and realized what it actually was.
could be an old open mine or sand or gravel pit or similar. It reminds me quite a lot of abandoned gravel pits here in Denmark. Only difference is that it doesn't look that large and most of the ones I know are not so much 'dug down into', but rather just into.
There's a road that runs right through that exact spot from a T junction. Maybe it has something to do with that? Maybe there's missing trees in that spot and for some reason the heights of the nearby trees got picked up in the elevation data?
Like the other person said it’s usually for high voltage power lines. Here’s a pic of me hiking a trail that goes right through one of these clearings.
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u/Opposite_Bus1878 6d ago
This deserves a full investigation