22 September 2016
I’m at the half way point of the trip and boy, does a night in a bed with a shower make a difference. I woke around 6:30 am, late for me, and got on the road by 8 am.
The drive from Redding to Crater Lake was really nice. It had some wide open spaces that reminded me of my days in Montana.
Confession time. I’m over backpacking in to sites and pitching a tent. The hike into and out of Glen camp pretty much did me in. It’s day hikes from here on out with hotels and lodges for the sleeping accommodations.
I lucked out at Crater Lake. I had wanted to stay in the Mazama Village cabins but they were completely booked a year ago. Last night in the Super 8 in Redding, I checked again and they had a vacancy! It’s cabin C-4 for me for the next two nights. I was too late to cancel the tent reservation but let them know when I checked in in case someone wanted my tent space. Not likely. I talked to a young couple while washing clothes this afternoon and it snowed on them last night.
For the remainder of the trip, I have hotels/motels for Yellowstone; Caprock Canyons, TX; and Mineral Wells, TX. In Yellowstone, the closest I could get was the town of West Yellowstone, but I know that place and it is very close to Old Faithful and my center of operations there.
I arrived at Crater Lake around 1 pm to snow flurries. I quickly drove to the rim and got a few shots of the lake at the Crater Lake Lodge as snow began to obscure Wizard Island.
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I then started to drive to a hike I wanted to do called the Watchtower, but the snow really started coming down with such intensity it obscured the road. I decided to come back down off the rim and do it tomorrow. I needed to wash clothes anyway.
To be honest, it was thrilling to drive through the snow on the twists and turns of the rim road. The jeep does everything automatically. The seat warmed up, the steering wheel warmed up and the windshield wipers kept time to the music I was playing. The only thing I had to do was turn on the window defroster.
I have a special relationship with snow. I love watching it fall and I love the acoustical silence it provides. I love walking in it, feeling the individual flakes pelting your skin. I suspect the young couple will get more snow tonight!
I stopped for a brief 0.4 mile loop called Castle Crest which I loved in June two years ago for the wildflowers. I didn’t expect much this time of year but did get to see some Monk’s Hood still in bloom.
I finally got the washing done and met the young couple I mentioned who were on a 30 day circuit of national parks. We compared notes on various parks and made suggestions to each other on ones we intended to visit.
I ate dinner at Annie’s Creek Restaurant in Mazama Village – fixed chicken which was surprisingly good. It was certainly better than the fancy restaurant at the Crater Lake Lodge that I dined at two years ago – and cheaper.
Tomorrow is some day hikes around the rim.
