Busy Four Lane Highway Rt97, Just South Of Redmond Oregon: Panorama Opens With a North View, Back Towards Downtown.

"We get into the stream of traffic going south and I can feel the hyped-up danger close in. I see in the mirror some bastard is tailgating me and won’t pass. I move it up to seventy-five and he still hangs in there. Ninety-five and we pull away from him. I don’t like this at all."
After having traveled the unpopulated, remote “back-country” for most of the ZMM Route, and especially since Missoula MT, the intense traffic of this four lane undivided main highway, is indeed a sudden slap in the face!! In taking the 8 photos for this panorama, I had to stand at the edge of this intense, busy, highway. I could feel real fear!! This was especially so, since I was looking into the camera viewfinder, and was blind to what the traffic was doing, “behind my back”!! The fact that I had the sturdy guard rail between me and all that vicious traffic was no comfort. My heart was racing and I had the almost un-bearable panic urge "I've got to get out of here!!" The ZMM Narrator reports similar reaction to this road. Here, no matter how long I waited, I could not get a vehicle-free photo of this road. So I had to settle for fewer than ordinary speeding of cars to get the eight photos for this panorama. I tried to wait for a lull in the traffic to get this and the next two photos. As you can see, even the lulls had traffic!! If this traffic was bad for the ZMM Narrator 42 years ago, it is much, much, worse now! ************************************ (Photo = 113-1325+7 ...... ZMM Page = 293 ...... WayPt = 357x 3442ft)

A Panoramic View From Atop Lava Butte, a 7000 Year Old, 500 ft High Cinder Cone. (Mid pan, I had to interrupt my photo shoot and go to the other side of the fire lookout tower.)
“Farther south we find a forest of scrubby trees, subdivided into ridiculous little lots. Some developer’s scheme apparently. and discover that the pine needles just barely cover what must be many feet of soft spongy dust.“ [A deep layer very fine volcanic dust cover a huge part of Oregon here!] “ I’ve never seen anything like it. We have to be careful not to kick up the needles or the dust flies up over everything. At one of the lots far off the main highway we spread out our sleeping bags. “
Deschutes National Forest, 14 Mi S of Bend, OR.This cinder cone erupted 7,000 years ago and covered over nine square miles with lava. The butte offers a panoramic view of central Oregon, including a spectacular view of the Cascade Range and the northwest flank of Newberry. The Lava Butte interpretive trail circles the crater rim. . Due to limited parking at the summit, must get “tickets: to take their vehicle up. Lava Butte rises 500 feet above the Lava Butte Visitor Center. (Text source, in New Browser)
Lava Butte and Newberry National Volcanic National Monument are within The Deschutes National Forest. The Monument includes 50,000+ acres of lakes, lava flows, and spectacular geologic features in central Oregon. The highest point within the Monument is the summit Paulina Peak (7,985 ft.), showcasing views of the Oregon Cascades and across the High Desert. The summit area of Newberry Volcano holds two sparkling alpine lakes full of trout and salmon. .It is hard to fathom as you drive through the summit area that you are within a 17 square mile caldera at the summit of a 500 square mile volcano, a volcano that remains very active to this day. Newberry is both seismically and geothermally active. Geologists believe the caldera sits over a shallow magma body only 2 to 5 kilometers deep. Visitors see numerous cinder cones (over 400 throughout the area), miles of basalt flows, as well as rhyolite flows of obsidian. Newberry National Volcanic National Monument (Text source, In New Browser)
A great view of Lava Butte Lookout Tower + OH-WOW Panorama from top nearby Paulina Peak. (In New Browser)
Scroll down for interesting “overhead” aerial view Lava Butte. (In New Browser)
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Near the Top Of Crater Lake Mountain, Oregon Celebrates July 4th With Snow Ball Contests!!
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Crater Lake National Park, OR. Just as soon as I saw this snow, I stopped for a photo of this natural scenery. Tor the last hour I had moved smoothly up the side of this volcanic mountain, the top of which has the huge pure water filled crater called Crater Lake.
The next several Photos give additional information.
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A Small Turn Off Prompted The View You See In The Opening View. But As I was Putting Away My Camera “Whats This? Is That Snow Pink? Then, By Quality In action, There Was a Second Propt: "Complete the Other Eight Shots For a Panorama."
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Getting Neat the Top Of Crater Lake Mountain, West Side, Crater Lake National Park, OR. Yes the snow is slightly pink!! But you must look closely!! I have some better close ups of both the pink and the abundant wild flowers, which will be placed in my album “Flowers and Red Wing Blackbirds” on this site.
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Its Fantastic! What a View!!
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Part Way Down Crater Wall, West Side, Crater Lake National Park, OR. The view opens with the exposed rocks, much as they have remained for ~7700 years after the explosion that took off the top half of the original Mount Mazama.

“Mazama is most famous for a catastrophic volcanic eruption that occurred around 5,677 (± 150) BC.[1][3] The eruption, estimated to have been 42 times more powerful than Mount St. Helens' 1980 blast, reduced Mazama's approximate 11,000-foot (3,400 m) height by around half a mile (800 m) when much of the volcano fell into the volcano's partially emptied neck and magma chamber. At 8,159 feet (2,487 m), Hillman Peak is now the highest point on the rim.” From Wikipedia:
Detour in new browser frame for Wikipedia Article..

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Its Fantastic! What a View!! The Island At Right Is a Small Cinder Cone That Pushed Up After the Monster Explosion that Created This Huge Crater. The Explosion was in the Exact Middle of What Was Once A Much Higher Volcanic Mountain called Mount Mazama.

…. “ … and see the Crater Lake with a feeling of "Well, there it is," just as the pictures
show. I watch the other tourists, all of whom seem to have out-of-place looks too. I have no resentment at all this, just a feeling that it’s all unreal and that the quality of the lake is smothered by the fact that it’s so pointed to. You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away…”

Crater Lake National Park, OR.

(Click picture to get a largest view, and use Click&Drag Bars Bottom & Right to see parts off scree..)

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Homes and Businesses Along the Highway in SW Oregon.
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Near Kirby, OR. Later I see a huge saw mill that dominates this very, very dry valley. But despite the lack of water, these big trees thrive!
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Finally, the California Coast at Long Last! Harbor Park Scenery Plus Ocean and Beach Looking South Toward Mountains in Distance.
“The grey rainy skies and sign-strewn road descend to Crescent City, California, grey and cold and wet, and Chris and I look and see the water, the ocean, in the distance beyond piers and grey buildings. I remember this was our great goal all these days. …. on the road again, south now, cold and misty. …. “
Battery Point, Crescent City, CA. This photo is taken at an elevation of no more than ~0010 feet, but here and later beach photos my GPS reads around 30 feet Evidently my GPS (at least in this area) reads elevation higher by this amount.. Many other places I have given additional elevation data (as was available) so you can judge the comparative accuracy of my GPS elevation numbers. I have decided to always report my GPS readings as given by my hand held receiver, and allow you, the reader, to decide how and when to make elevation corrections. A soon as possible I will add my photo of an offshore harbor island having a really great looking lighthouse.
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The Horizon May Be Discerned As the Line Separating the Lighter Sky Above the Water.
“ The rain has lifted enough so that we can see the horizon now, a sharp line demarking the light grey of the sky and the darker grey of the water.“ The Horizon, Is Partly Obscured By haze.

Five mi South of Orick, CA.
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