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| Day trip up to the rim (Didn't I say the lake was even bluer than my jacket?!) |
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| They should have just named Crater Lake "The Insanely Blue Lake". |
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| Starting out on my three-day side expedition around the lake. (Two of my boxes/letters hadn't arrived at the Mazama Store in time, so I decided I might as well do something interesting while I was "stuck" waiting for them - hence, the crazy detour-around-the-lake idea...) |
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| Looking south from the rim - I think that's Mount Shasta all the way in the distance. |
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| Hillman's Peak from the back |
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| The Rim Road |
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| The weather wasn't too great. It started raining in the evening. (And I managed to break my lighter and had to try lighting my stove with matches. Ugh.) |
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| Camping away from the road - 1 mile officially; "in practice", the nice ranger who issued my backcountry permit told me, "just get out of sight of the road"... |
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| I went on a boat tour to Wizard Island the next morning. This is the rim of Crater Lake from the inside. |
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| Llao Rock |
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| Wizard Island |
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| I was the only person on the whole boat carrying overnight gear - "you look like you're prepared for pretty much anything", the captain of the boat said. (And I had to carry it all the way to the top of Wizard Island because the squirrels would have chewed up my pack, had I left it somewhere...) |
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| Going up Wizard Island |
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| Indian Paintbrush |
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| View from the top |
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| The caldera on top |
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| Another view of the caldera |
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| Boat landing |
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| The water was crazy-crystal-clear. |
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| The Phantom Ship |
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| Pumice Castle |
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| The sad thing is that this sign is probably necessary... |
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| The Phantom Ship from above |
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| The lake was beautiful, but the mosquitoes were really bad. |
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| In fact, even standing still for a moment for a photograph without your head net was almost impossible. |
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| Last view of the lake - I gave up two thirds along the way and hitched a ride back to Mazama Village. The mosquitoes were insane, and walking on a paved road was no fun - my feet hurt, and I had to be constantly on the alert for cars whose drivers clearly weren't expecting any pedestrians on the road. Plus, it was my birthday the next day, and I wanted a nice birthday breakfast! :-) |
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| Waterfall on the way back |
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| Birthday breakfast!!! :-) |
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| My camp site at the Mazama Village Campground |
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| Going for a walk along the Annie Creek Canyon trail |
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