Crater Lake National Park

We were headed north out of Klamath Falls.

There is a national park about an hour drive north of Klamath Falls.

We have an interagency annual national parks pass that gets us into the park for free.

Where do you think we went after breakfast with our Tanzanian friends?




















What Minnesota boy could come to a lake on a 90 degree day and not jump in. Though there was still 3 feet of snow on the side of the road...though we didn't have the appropriate footwear to hike the 20 switchbacks down the 2 mile trail to the lake...though they told us the lake was fee zing cold...we thought, it can't be colder than Superior, right?




We were just going to climb down the final twenty feet to the rocky shore where other people were sitting and wade in...but then one of the park rangers, that's right, one of the RANGERS, saw us in our suits and said, "you guys gonna jump off the rock?"

"yup!!!"

Thanks ms. Ranger!



























It was beautiful!

On the way out of the park we decided we couldn't just leave all the snow behind...so we filled our cooler with snow. First to keep our pop cold. Second, so we can have snowball fights in the heat of Montana tomorrow!







Two just about three hours from Missoula. Here we come!

Location:Crater Lake, OR