Holy Frigidare Dave - who stole the Thermostat?

As we moved along towards our goal that day of reaching Crater Lake, the sun was still shining and everyone was dressed pretty light. Somewhere between leaving highway 97 and reaching the Crater Lake Entryway gate, the temperature dropped suddenly about 30 degrees. By suddenly, I mean withing about 200 yards! This necessitated a stop for more clothing. What is that white stuff?





Up the curving road to the top, we find a lot of water streaming across the road from the melting snow. We probably should be off the mountain before that stuff freezes . . . Thre was a fair amount of snow left in the area.



This view is hard to ever tire of, and the photo, even if it were well done, would not do the scenery justice.

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There really was a lot of snow up there . . .



WE left the park and linked up with the chase truck and sent him barreling down the mountain in search of any fleabag motel he could find. He ended up clear into Shady Cove, OR to probably the nicest hotel we had stayed in the whole trip! There was little energy left after the breakneck ride down the mountain to beat twilight, so dinner was a gourmet feast of lunch meats that Nick had kept cold all day with snow from the mountain.



After dinner it was pretty much hit the snack and try to recuperate from what was believed to be a 300 mile plus day!