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It's been a very busy couple weeks and I haven't had time to enjoy all your great photos and now I'm heading out again for another week or so. I look forward to catching up with everyone when I get back. Here's another image from last weekend at Crater Lake. Next up - the last frontier. Sunset will happen at 11:32PM tomorrow night. More light = more photos.
OTD post from 2021:
We left CLNP in the south and drove to Hood River up north.
Mt Hood dominates the landscape in the northern half of the state. HFF!
Overlooking the overlook. The road to Cloudcap Overlook on the rim of Crater Lake is the highest paved road in the state at 8,065 ft. It also offers stunning views of the deep blue lake thousands of feet below it. I'm looking down at the road here from the summit of Mt Scott at 8,394 ft. No roads up here.
Back in Oregon now, these are some rapids on the Umpqua River near Toketee Falls taken a few weeks ago on a trip to Crater Lake.
This wintery scene was actually captured just last month around the summer solstice along the west rim drive at Crater Lake. The road was still closed to traffic at the time but has since opened. I guess that means it’s summer now. You can’t see the lake here but it’s the exact color of the blue sky.
I was off Flickr a little longer than expected due to some unforeseen tech issues but looks like those are pretty much resolved now. Definitely not my area of expertise.
Summer arrives at Crater Lake this year with a fresh snowfall and a rim drive that's still closed for the winter.
Visibility changed by the minute so every time the lake appeared I took a bunch of pictures. Got a nice glimpse here.
Something about 'still waters run deep' comes to mind here. One of the deepest lakes in the world and it's all straight from the sky, no other source feeds into it.
This is what everyone was taking pictures of in the last photo I posted.
Crater Lake was just loosing the last of its snow when we were there in mid-June. I suspect it’s already turning white again. No matter how many times I visit, I’m always impressed by the intense blue that seems to perfectly match the sky.
There’s a castle built into the caldera rim at Crater Lake that is best seen from the boat ride around the lake,
A study of the section, composed of layers of hard, resistant material such as the andesite and obsidian interspersed in the soft, less resistant layers of fragmental pumice, explains why erosion has produced the castle-like feature. In addition to the scenic value of The Pumice Castle, it is a significant scientific feature in that it is evidence of a pumice eruption which occurred earlier than the ejection of material represented by the great thickness of pumice exposed at the top of the crater wall, and which mantles the region of miles beyond the crater rim. - NPSHistory
I was originally thinking I would only post the one shot of this sunrise but then couldn’t resist side-by-side images. It’s amazing how fast the light changes in just 210 seconds.
6/14/21 was the day we drove from Crescent City CA, outside of Redwood NP, to Crater Lake NP in OR. A few miles north of CLNP was an overlook of this view of Diamond Lake and the volcanic 8,363 ft Mt. Bailey.
It was 28 degrees at 5:45am and ice was covering my truck, but as soon as I get into position and the sky starts to light up I seem to forget about all of that.
07:06:02
Crater Lake’s East Rim Drive received a much-needed renovation last summer. It was scheduled to be closed for the entire season (it closes every year in the winter anyway) but opened on my last day there in late September. With its opening also came access to Mt Scott, making me one of the first people all year to get this view from the summit of Crater Lake’s highest point. The view of the lake is also pretty cool from up here, but I’ve posted several of those images already. The road to the upper right leads to Cloud Cap Overlook, the highest point on the rim of the caldera and spectacular spot to watch the sunset.
I was actually setting up for sunset but couldn't resist a few golden shots in the opposite direction.
It was very dusty from high winds this morning in Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. I went to shoot Mesa arch but changed my mind when I saw all of the dust limiting detail in the distance. These conditions were great however for capturing silhouettes of the distant plateaus and ridges in the parks.
Here I am leaving "Island in the Sky" looking east toward Arches. The structures of the Windows district in Arches National Park can be seen in one of the middle silhouettes.
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Phantom Ship (left) is one of Crater Lake's two islands, it is 170 feet (51.8 meters) high, 500 feet (152 meters) long, and 200 feet (60.9 meters) wide. At first glance, the dark, jagged island just offshore (caldera rim wall on right) calls to mind the image of a ghostly ship with tall masts and drooping sails. Phantom Ship is actually a resistant remnant of an ancient volcanic cone that was engulfed in the growing Mazama volcano. This vent shared the underground chanber that fed Mount Mazama and was part of its early mountain building phase. These rocky spires remained after Mount Mazama's massive eruption and collapse, displaying the oldest rock in the Crater Lake basin over 400,000 years old. -National Park Service
I rarely opt for black and white when I'm at Crater Lake, usually trying to maximize the intensity of the beautiful deep blue color, but this one called out for something different.
So this shot was taken just before the clouds/fog rolled on from the left... This is probably my favoite CLNP shot that I've got. Though light wasn't optimal, I was glad I captured this, AND made it safely down the mountain without any accident...
Also, I ran a 8 by 12 of this, and was pretty happy how it turned out!!
An almost-full moon rises behind Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. It's worth the drive, the crowds (everyone leaves before sunset, it's weird!), the wait, the cold, the almost-altititude-sickness feeling...a few times over. Would do again. Totally.
The first time I passed this splintered stump there was nothing of the lake visible through the clouds. I was disappointed because I thought it looked pretty cool with the snow and imagined a nice composition if there was any way to see into the distance. When the sun eventually poked through I was already way down the trail and wasn’t sure if I’d get back before the blue window closed. Just barely made it.