Continental DIY ‘waffle machine’ breakfast at Klamath Falls’ Super 8 — started Friday B-I-G (ya’ll know, FREE is for me) 🙂 — then travelled north on Highways 97 & 62, today’s ‘bucket list’ destination: Crater Lake Nat’l Park.

Like No Place Else On Earth
Crater Lake has inspired people for thousands of years. No place else on earth combines a deep, pure lake, so blue in color; sheer surrounding cliffs, almost two thousand feet high; two picturesque islands; and a violent volcanic past.

 

It is a place of immeasurable beauty…

Started at the Visitors Center & tutored myself of everything Crater Lake before veering east on Rim Drive, travelling counter-clockwise ’round the Lake.  Best view of this volcanic wonder?  Less then 2 miles from the Visitors Center.  Seriously.

Parked an hour+ & soaked in the landscape.  Ponderosa pine, pristine blue water — trapped snow melt from thousands of years, no water inlet or outlet from the Crater.  Natural, untouched by man.

Lunched in Rim Village.  Stopped at Watchman Overlook to best view Wizard Island — organically created after Mt Mazama’s eruption 7700 years ago.  Today was about taking it all in.  Tomorrow I’ll be up-close & personal — marathoning the Rim from Watchman Overlook to the Pinnacles, including a 5 mile grind UP past Llao Rock.  Will be my most challenging marathon to date.

Finished the day with a Wet Wubba at Wubba’s BBQ Shack.  Early to bed, early to rise — tomorrow, my 36th state run 🙂

 

‘bucket list’ destination, Crater Lake

 

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