Once over the Fourth of July funk, we drove to another section of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument, the Lava Cast Forest. It is more accurately a lava mold forest. The lava that flowed through the northwest rift of Newberry Volcano 6000 years ago flowed through a forest and solidified around the trees. As the trees burned out they left behind molds of themselves.
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| Paintbrush |
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| Pumice |
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| Ponderosa Pine Bark |
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| Pinedrops |
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| Trees in harsh environments twist to ensre water gets to all of it |
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| Twin tree molds |
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| Cast of a tree on its side |
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| Newberry volcano caldera in the background with the northwest rift flow |
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| Never tire of viewing these mountains |
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| Textures |
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| Paulina Lake and the Peak |
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| Paulina Lake abuts an older obsidian flow |
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| Britton and Stephne were away for a few days and I had the privilege of checking in on their cat Lester - although I'm not sure who was checking on who - I felt I was being watched while in our camper |
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| The Painbrh are blloming on Paulina Peak |
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| We were invited to tag along on University of Oregon's volcanologist Danielle McKay's field study class for the day. |
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| Love how the lava folded onto itself |
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| East Lake osprey |
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| After the class Matthew and I kayaked east lake past the slide on the side of the central pumice cone |
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| Part of the northwes riff |
Took a ride up the dirt road that is our evacuation route should there be a fire up here. This pumice field outside of the monument was our destination, since we could legally collect pumice here.
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| A volcanic bomb - shot out of an eruption |
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| More kayaking - the snow is almost totally gone from the caldera |
Unfortunately, the large Cram fire north of us produced a lot of smoke our way. We drove up to the peak to see what we could - it wasn't much.
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| the lower photo is what we should be seeing in the one above it |
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| Matthew in his element, testing to see which rocks float with a young visitor |
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| Testing the gas emissions from one of the hot springs on East Lake |
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| 37th wedding anniversary celebration - East Lake Resort's incredible mixed berry cobbler - we ate two |
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