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| Mt. Bachelor - ski lift just left of center |
Oregon is beautiful! I have never spent much time in the state other than a 3 day conference in Portland years ago and a quick backpack trip in the north east corner of the state. On this trip, I've seen a lot of the central part of the state and it is wonderful. Being a high mountain desert it is very dry and hot this time of year. There is sagebrush and juniper trees everywhere. And peppering the horizon all along my drive was a series of old volcanoes. My imagination was in overdrive thinking about what it must have been like 20,000 years ago when the volcanoes were more active.
I also got to check out the Cascade mountains last night when I camped along Hosmer Lake with a view of Mount Bachelor. When I first saw Mt. Bachelor I was amazed that people ski on it. As a non-skier, I thought the slopes look way too vertical to be safe. But apparently it is quite popular for that.
A more scenic view of the dead volcano was from the other side with an expansive meadow below. There were lots of flyfishers and I tried not thinking about how I didn't have time to fish.
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| Mt. Bachelor |
Other volcanoes which are apparently active or potentially active were also visible. The active Three Sisters were very near as well as the extinct volcano, Broken Top.
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| South Sister volcano |
Geology rocks!
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