Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is a valley within Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska which is filled with ash flow from the eruption of Novarupta on June 6–8, 1912. Following the eruption, thousands of fumaroles vented steam from the ash. Robert F. Griggs, who explored the volcano's aftermath for the National Geographic Society in 1916, gave the valley its name, saying that "the whole valley as far as the eye could reach was full of hundreds, no thousands—literally, tens of thousands—of smokes curling up from its fissured floor." Prior to the eruption,
Catch Us If You Can sequence of the ESPN broadcast of the 1989 Winston 500 NASCAR race held at Talladega Superspeedway. "Catch Us If You Can" was also used for video clips of baseball highlights on "The George Michael Sports Machine". The song was also used in the opening sequence of the TBS broadcast of the 1987 NBA Playoffs between the Los Angeles Lakers against the Seattle SuperSonics in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals. Catch Us If You Can "Catch Us If You Can" is a 1965 song from The Dave Clark Five (DC5), written by group's drummer Dave Clark and guitarist Lenny