Not as eventful as i had hoped…
Well, I made it safely to Roseburg, OR. Problem is, I didn’t do anything even remotely dangerous. I did make it to the trailhead for the Mt. McLoughlin hike only to have it rain. And rain. And rain. I waited two hours and 40 minutes before finally giving up at noon. Turns out that everything on the mountain above 5000 feet was in a cloud, literally. (See the first photo in batch linked to below.) So, I decided to head for Klamath Falls, OR for some lunch (the wrong direction) and then head up to see Crater Lake. I paid my $10 to get into the park only to be told “there’s been zero viability all day.” Seems that there was a bit of fog. Well, luckily when I got up there the fog decided to blow off and I did get some good pictures. I hung around for about a half hour since it was damn cold (high 30s with the wind) and I was in shorts and a polo. I then took the back route into Roseburg stopping a few times along the Umpqua river and a mini-hike along the river. (There looked like there were some nice significant hikes, including one that goes for dozens of miles along the river, but it was too lake in the day to start one of those.) See, I knew that I’d pay for the good experience at DIA, the flight out and m first hotel…
The photos are available, as usual, via Ofoto.com. Viewing them as a slideshow will show you the captions I put on a bunch of them so you’ll know what you’re looking at.
