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. Â Best view of this volcanic wonder? Â Less then 2 miles from the Visitors Center. Â 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. Â Stopped at Watchman Overlook to best view Wizard Island — organically created after Mt Mazama’s eruption 7700 years ago. Â Today was about taking it all in. Â 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. Â 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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