I’ve got Linkin Park going, and I’ve got my photos edited. Let’s do this.
On the way up to Oregon, I stopped at the Jelly Belly factory. I had to get a shot of just how many beans they have in there. I want to make a mountain of them and dive into it
Later on in the drive, we stopped at a vista point on I-5 and I got this picture of Mount Shasta.
This is it. The main event. The reason I drove an entire day, through rain, snow, and ice. Winter Crater Lake. You usually can’t see the lake in the winter, though. It’s almost always invisible. We could see it this day, and boy was it worth it.
No shit, it’s actually called Wizard Island. It’s part of the volcano that popped up here. The blueness in the water isn’t fake. It’s rainfall fed, no runoff at all, so the 2000 foot deep lake is one of the clearest and bluest lakes on earth (besides that one chemical waste lake in Russia that keeps giving people chemical burns)
Off in the distance, there’s a faint orange glow. That isn’t the sun setting, I took this at 1 PM. From what I’ve gathered, it’s a weird atmospheric effect. I think it’s cool as hell.
I shot this on the side of the road out of Crater Lake because I just had to get that sunset effect.
I got this with my phone and it really comes through here. You’d never know I took this at 2 PM.
Those mountains look super cool, I think they’re the Cascades? I’m not sure.
Highway 97, the road from Klamath to Weed, is, for the most part a two-lane road for its few hundred mile stretch. Some parts are snowed in during the winter, others are clear as day. Neverending trees stretch along the sections that run through national forests, the Deschutes, the Fremont-Winema, and more that I’m forgetting. It’s just endless trees, and then you hit the lake, and you see the town of Klamath, and you realize it’s still about 150 miles to Weed, and from there it’s more like 7 hours till you get home. All in all I had fun, got the photos I wanted, and got to see some family I hadn’t seen in a while.
Till next time,
-Nolan
I took this because I saw those clouds and just couldn’t not get that shot, right? So cool. This was about 15 miles or so out of Weed, on 97.