A View Of The Steep Slope & Volcanic Rock, Left After The Gigantic Humongous Explosion That Created This Incredible Crater AND Lake!
…. “You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away. Quality is what you see out of the corner of your eye, and so I look at the lake below but feel the peculiar quality from the chill, almost frigid sunlight behind me, and the almost motionless wind. “

Mount Mazama Is A Complex Volcano In The Western U.S. State Of Oregon, In A Segment Of The Cascade Volcanic Arc And Cascade Range. Its Gigantic Explosion 7700 Years Ago Exp. Formed A Caldera That Holds Crater Lake.
… Mount Mazama originally had an elevation of approximately 12,000 feet (3,700 m), but following its climactic eruption this was reduced to 8,157 feet (2,486 m).
..Crater Lake is 1,943 feet (592 m) deep, the deepest freshwater body in the U.S. and the second deepest in North America after Great Slave Lake in Canada.
…Mount Mazama formed as a group of overlapping volcanic edifices, becoming active intermittently until its climactic eruption 7,700 years ago.
…This eruption, the largest known within the Cascade Volcanic Arc in a million years, destroyed Mazama's summit, reducing its approximate 12,000-foot (3,700 m) height by about 1 mile (1,600 m).
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Native Americans have inhabited the area around Mazama and Crater Lake for at least 10,000 years and the volcano plays an important role in local folklore.
…The Klamath Native Americans of the area believed that Mount Mazama was inhabited by Llao, their "Chief of the Below World."[103] After the mountain destroyed itself the Klamaths recounted the events as a great battle between Llao and his rival Skell, their sky god,[104] or "Chief of the Above World."[103] The narrative has several slightly different iterations. A common variant of the legend recounts that Llao saw a beautiful Klamath woman, the daughter of a chief, and became angry when she refused his offer of immortality if she would be his consort. Furious, Llao emerged from Mazama and threw fire upon the people beneath the mountain, and Skell stood on Mount Shasta, trying to defend the people against Llao's fury. As the earth shook and volcanic rock fell from the sky, two holy men sacrificed themselves to Mount Mazama's crater, and Skell was able to force Llao back into the volcano, which then collapsed on top of him;[103] other accounts tell that Skell smashed the peak on top of Llao.[105] Torrential rain followed, filling in the hole left by Mazama's collapse to form Crater Lake.[103]
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Above From Wikipedia. For Complete Article, Including A Really Great Aerial View, Click Here.
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To view Henry Gurr’s 3 Panorama Photos Of Crater Lake => Click Here, And AFTER This Gallery Page Comes Up, .ClickOn & View The 4th, 5tth, &6th Panorama Small Images.
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