Crater Lake was nice today. (2 pics - 200k)

[rrneck]

Wizard Island is 736 feet above the surface of the water.

More info:

http://www.nps.gov/crla/index.htm

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Those are lovely, my dear rrneck...

It is probably the most beautiful caldera I have ever seen.

[rrneck]

2. It just knocks my socks off every time I go over there.

I can't get my head around the scale of the place. Four thousand feet of mountain collapsed into the caldera in a matter of hours. It's like you could go for lunch, come back and say, "Hey, where did the fucking mountain go"?

[Solly Mack]

3. Nice!

[laundry_queen]

4. Incredible pictures! nt

[Locut0s]

5. Nice shots, will have to visit some day...

It's not all that far from me really and I love geologic formations like this!

[davidpdx]

6. The last time I was up there was about 4 years ago

with my wife and my mom when we visited Oregon. We were actually on our way back out of the country via of all places Chemult to take Amtrack to Oakland and then transfer to SF via Bart and fly back to South Korea. It was a long ass trip.

They have small towns here in Korea, but nothing like Chemult. We had some good laughs about the "train station".

What do you call a hole in the road? Chemult

[mnhtnbb]

7. Very serene.

[dr.strangelove]

8. We used to try to visit in late May/early June before the snow melted

We would get great pics of us standing on top of the snow above the second floor windows in the lodge or at the top of a 30+ foot tree.
Its simply the most beautiful place on earth, and when I die a small portion of my ashes will be (illegally) spread there by my children.

[snagglepuss]

9. Beuatiful. THnaks for posting.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. DU Rec

[Arugula Latte]

11. I love that place. It's so still and other-worldly.

I didn't expect the deep, deep peacefulness of that lake, and the sense of stepping back in time. It really stayed with me.

[DFW]

12. Crater Lake is one of my alltime favorite places on this planet

A place of timeless beauty and tranquility.

(especially when the bears don't interrupt your lunch)

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. Blast from the past for me!

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I remember having a picture of Crater Lake as my desktop for awhile when I first got on the web,

that would be around 2000, built my first on-line computer from thrift stores like the Salvation Army.

When I formatted the hard drive, a whopping 500 megabytes,

memory was 16 megs ram, running Windows 95,

I named it "DAVE1150"

that's what it cost me - $11.50 for the 3 scrap computers (Digitals, now Compaq) and a brand new 500meg hard drive still in the wrapper that noone knew what it was for 50 cents - 6 months of figuring everything out -

I was on-line!

Still am.



CC

[Bertha Venation]

14. Nice. n/t