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Crater Lake National Park

This weekend we drove another 1,000 miles to seek out another natural wonder.  Crater Lake inside the Cascade Range in southeast Oregon.

Deepest lake in the USofA at around 1,900 feet max depth is the cleanest and purest of freshwater lakes in the country.  

Pictures will tell the tale,

Fairly crowded for what is relatively a remote location in the middle of nowhere.... temps topped out in the high 80s so the ice cold water felt good when we got to the bottom - only one trail gets you there - at the north end of the lake.

Looking north across the lake at the almost perfect circle which is the caldera formed of a now extinct volcano

 
 
 Spotted few hummingbirds, local noise makers and some curious rodents including one marmot. 

Below is a curious ground squirrel ..

 


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The waters around the island in the lake are amazing shades of aquamarine...

 

Some friends we made...
 
 

Plakini Falls to the south of the lake - a good mile long hike was worth the trouble
As Bryson would put it - finally as we head out we are greeted with his eminence Mt. Shasta - at 14,192 feet above sea level its immensity dwarfs everything in sight..
 

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  1. RajendraJuly 29, 2013 at 9:19 AM

    Funny. I am planning to visit Lonar Crater near Nagpur in the coming week or two. Will see and tell if it pans out.

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