- Nasty Creek is a stream located in the upper reach of the Ahtanum Creek watershed, in Yakima County, Washington, in the United States. The stream flows 3.7 miles (6.0 km) from its source near Foundation Ridge to its confluence with the North Fork of Ahtanum Creek.
ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary