Emotional meeting with 'Great Deep Blue', Crater Lake National Park

26 days of the trip yesterday morning was bright ~ 250km east of the Oregon beach by running for four hours arrived at the Diamond Lake Campground is here. 30-day camping trip to one of the most deserted tent where a scary place to hit the toilet, or indeed where mosquitoes are incredibly many ... ^ ^

Take that burden Diamond Lake (Diamond Lake) looked down for a moment. Float a boat on the lake in the early morning people look back to the snowy mountains. Umpqua National Forest area here too as many as 239 camping sites and there is a large resort so popular resorts in the state of Oregon, but this is not our destination today. Go down south, where the final highlight of the trip 30 days Crater Lake National Park is waiting.

Crater Lake (Crater Lake) National Park, Oregon (Oregon) 5 Freeway south of the state, about 150km north east of the deep mountains. 62 on the road for two hours in Medford, Roseburg is a two and a half hours by road from the 138 degree lacks to arrive the house, if you move along the 5 Freeway and if you are short of half 7-8 hours if you have stopped by to go free The count is. Conclusions from, say, a space deliberately Please visit my profusely worth it! (In the map, just above the national park boundary, where 138 and 230 meet once before the picture is a small lake camping Diamond Lake)

Antique-written lettering on the roadside plaque hanging National Park and the far north entrance of Crater Lake National Park is 1,783 m above sea level, this is the look.

Park Entrance North Junction even out in the lake and 15km, which was in the middle of a dense forest so suddenly disappeared like a lie where there bud. Later, I saw a map where you going through the Pumice Desert assessed. Turns out that the word desert, California is nearing Putting ~

Look at a map of the park, we came down to North Junction turn left Lake Rim Village Watchman Overlook and looking around the Steel Information Center and went to the park through the south exit. Now - now the intersection of North Junction to pull Merriam Point and walked ...

GREAT DEEP BLUE ... (Hangul as 'huge deep blue' can also translate it, but for some reason does not properly delivered to the English seem to feel ...) At this point, my SLR camera with EFS 10-22mm lens which is the maximum Wide Angle could not even fit on hold. 2,142 m where I now stand, and that the lake surface is 1,882 m above sea level 260m vertically or 'down' to be. I created the crater lake, we are near the high volcano (volcano) and looking for the ran from morning all the earth is flat was a huge volcano, the crater was hidden under the middle will do so! (Crater Lake caldera lake of similar nature as compared to South Korea's Baekdu stick, up to about 2.7 times the diameter of 9.7km is about six times the area)

Eating one impressed once again by going Watchman Overlook along the ring road, next to the road in early July, even though the thick snow still remained.

Watch Man Overlook (Watchman Overlook) look at on arrival, to the left of the lake at 2,453 m in the steep cliffs are visible at the top of Llao Rock, and at the time of the eruption of lava in the future as it is made pillars are lined with red color 'The Devil's Backbone (Devils Backbone)' is shown. (This photo was taken with SLR-colored snaps photos of the lake bottom color is incorrect, colored snaps are slightly exaggerated because SLR is a bit fuzzy around the middle is actually ... ^ ^)

The front has a resemblance to a witch's pointed hat named Wizard (Wizard) showed island, the island would explode into an unusual volcanic crater lake was created again in the bulge, he said. (The place of geology and history and about the size of a volcanic eruption will be described in the next installment)

"Give me a lake said to show the entire state -" So ... just Microsoft's Photo prepared (Photosynth) is a panoramic picture using the program. Click the photo above to link to the Web site, drag the mouse wheel moves back and forth, I took photographs of the entire lake can be seen. (You may have to Install the Program screen, which shows a panorama of the program, so just install Microsoft search and, Photosynth questions or want to know more about the one year ago I posted here and Click to encourage wind)

I went up the right to look down like the name (watch) Watch the top just looks good (Watchman) and the top of the mountain there was a lookout is steep rocky mountain tentatively called the passage of the risk of rock falls and that is a prohibited. Have you ever go up there looking down saw how minutes?

It's been a long time in a family photo taken on the so-eye view of the high and decent (hard english ^ ^) Please do not take pictures with your family because it is the style, there are many family photos taken at Crater Lake is a big place, which means that much of an impression. The entire 30-day trip costs 5 yuan certainly where ~

Next to come in groups grandparents are taking pictures Terence., Korea and other points on the tour bus instead of riding their Harley Davidson will came! We climb back in the car, along Rim Drive, accommodation and many facilities such as visitor centers gathered in forests Village (Rim Village) and headed to ... (to be continued)