Going East
I am about to embark on a cross-country trip in my RV.
From California, I will go north to Oregon and exit Oregon in the southeast corner, an area I have never visited.
Then it is south into Nevada and finally east thru Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri etc.
Destination: North Carolina. My friends Mike and Svetlana couldn't get everything into their rented truck
when they drove to NC last week, so I am bringing bikes, tools, roto-tiller etc. back to them.

return home.

First Stop: Lassen Volcanic National Park - September 11 -14, 2007

Lassen Volcanic National Park became a national park in 1916 because of its significance as an active volcanic landscape.

The park is a compact laboratory of volcanic phenomena and associated thermal features except true geysers. It is part of a vast geographic unit- a great lava plateau with isolated volcanic peaks - that also encompasses Lava Beds National Monument, California, and Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.
The western part of the park features great lava pinnacles, hugh mountains created by lava flows, jagged craters, and steaming sulphur vents. It is cut by spectacular glaciated canyons and is dotted and threaded by lakes and rushing clear streams. Snowbanks persist year-round and beautiful meadows are spread with wildflowers in spring.

Lassen geothermal area-Sulphur Works, Bumpass Hell, Little Hot Springs Valley, Boiling Springs Lake, Devils Kitchen, and Terminal Geyser, offer bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles, and boiling water. Some of these thermal features are getting hotter. Scientists think that the area of Lassen Volcanic National Park and Mount Shasta are the most likely candidates in the Cascades to join Mount Saint Helens as active volcanic areas.

Lassen Peak is not covered in snow in September this year.
More proof of global warming?

This view of the 10,475 peak is from 8500 feet. Click photo to enlarge.