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Yesterday Recliner Man and I went to see Crater Lake. We took so many pictures that I had to change the memory card in my camera. I’ll share some of them with you over the next few days.
On the way there we passed many beautiful sights. This lake is called Odell Lake. It is a glacier lake located in the Deschutes National Forest.
These two photos are of the pumice desert at Crater Lake.
From an interpretive sign at the site:
The pumice deposits you are now standing on are the product of Mt. Mazama, an explosive volcano that collapsed to form the Crater Lake caldera. Mazama stood about 6 miles (9.7km) south of here.
About 7,700 years ago Mt. Mazama erupted torrents of seething, red-hot pumic and other colcanic rocks. The glowing avalanches raced down slopes and flooded the valley that lay here with deposits over 100 feet (30m) deep.
Even after thousands of years, few trees have become established on the Pumice Desert. There is ample water under the surface, but deficiencies in the soil limit plant growth. Many more years will pass before the surrounding lodgepole pines transform desert to a forest.
Crater Lake gets about 44 feet of snow each winter. We visited on July 2nd under a warm sunny sky and there was snow all over the place.
OK, that’s it for tonight. I’ll be back soon with more photos.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Jolene // Jul 5, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Love to see travel photos. Just where is Crater Lake in relation to any place we might have heard of?
I know little of volcanos, so to learn about the pumice flow is interesting.
2 CeCe DuPriest // Jul 7, 2009 at 9:40 am
Just wanted to say hello and tell you I hope despite the being choked and the car trouble, you are having some fun!
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