Deer near Bumpass Hell in Lassen NP
View of Lassen Peak with snow in early September
Meadow in Lassen NP
Another picture of meadow
Snowpile in front of trail to peak
Big snowpile near trailhead
Trail to Bumpass Hell, in Lassen NP
More deer along trail
Snow along trail
Boiling pools and mudpots in Bumpass Hell
People looking at the boiling pools
Another boiling pool
Closeup of pool showing mud cracks
More shots of boardwalks and boiling pools
5-second movie of boiling mud pots (my camera takes very low-res movies)
5-second movie closeup of a boiling mud pot
Glass Mountain, with lots of obsidian, near Medicine Lake
You have to drive on 3 miles of dirt forest service road to get to Glass Mountain. This is a view from the road looking through the national forest towards Lava Beds Monument
Another shot, trying to get the exposure right
Another shot
Lava Beds National Monument
Sunshine Cave, one of the lava tube caves in Lava Beds NM
Another cave view
Mouth of Sentinel cave, showing natural bridge
Strange plant growing in Lava Beds NM
Mouth of Indian Well cave
View of Lake Helen from trail up to Lassen Peak
Another trail view
Shot of the peak (white marker, which is the monitoring station in shots below) from the trail; there is a lot of loose gravel and rocks near the top
Another shot, from the highest point on the trail where you can still see the parking lot. My camera doesn't have the resolution to pick out my car, but we could identify it by eye.
View of Mount Shasta from Lassen Peak
Us sitting on peak
Another shot, since I blinked in the first one
Shot of "devastated area" from 1915 eruption. From the road, it doesn't look too bad, but the missing trees are more obvious from the peak
Another view from the peak
This is the solar powered monitoring station (weather+seismograph?) on the peak
You have to walk across a snow field to get to the peak
The area around the crater, filled with snow. Mount Shasta is in the background
One of the plants on the peak, in a fenced off area where they won't get stepped on
Peak Chipmunk
This is a view showing the trail from the bottom. It's about 2.5 miles each way, and requires 2 bottles of water per person, and about 5 hrs round trip (including stopping to rest and to eat lunch). The part of the trail that looks steep is not really part of the trail; it's where people took shortcuts as there are signs saying not to do.
A shot of the peak from Lake Helen, showing the "Vulcan Eye" rock formation. The trail to the top goes along the right slope of the peak
