Lassen Volcanic National Park

Would you like to visit another volcano? So did we! This one is in California.

Near the Visitor Center you can see Manzanita Lake. There is a campground there too, but we didn't stay in it. Too bad, it looked like a nice lake for kayaking.

Also near the Visitor Center....official greeters.

The Loomis Museum has a great display of artifacts and photographs of the volcano's most recent major eruption in 1914.

All thanks to Benjamin Loomis who was brave? enough to hang around to take the sequence of photographs as it happened.
We were getting discouraged as we waited several times for one-way traffic through construction. Our only view was through a dust cloud behind the pilot truck....no stopping for photos.
Finally we got past the road construction, and the rest of the route was clear and scenic.

There was more snow here than at Crater Lake...wish I was there now.

Finally reached the summit parking lot...

...which is not really the summit. You have to hike if you want to really stand on the summit.

Snow was melting and slushy.

A warning about trying to hike to the summit. It also suggested several items we didn't have along...ice axes, spiked boots, etc. So you go on ahead if you want, but we didn't.

Sure is tempting, though.

A frozen lake.

Well, semi-frozen.

One of the scenic viewpoints.

Oh, and a thermal area.

The road leading down to the thermal area.

That mud was really boiling!

After leaving the Volcano we traveled to Truckee where we had a mini- get-together with friend Ron, who traveled with our group to Alaska last year.

Ron has a nice summer set-up in Truckee, near Lake Tahoe.

In the morning, we stopped to get a photo of Lake Tahoe on our way out of California.

Unfortunately, it was time to turn east. we have really enjoyed our visit in the Pacific Northwest.