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Wednesday Aug 4, 2021 #
1 PM
Hiking (Trail) 1:43:54 [3] 3.71 mi (28:00 / mi) +124m 25:22 / mi
(injured)
Butte Lake, Lassen National Park, CA. Peggy, Max, Samantha, and I hiked from Butte Lake to the Cinder Cone in this eastern end of the park. The air was bad from the nearby Dixie fire. Ash could be seen accumulating on the car. My camera meter showed me that the light was more like evening twighlight--it's not normally safe to take a picture directly into the sun but in some direct pictures the sun could barely be seen. There was plenty of smoke. Visibility was down, but we could see some things over a quarter mile away with ease. Samantha's fears made our hiking progress slow.
We hiked a trail to get close to an old Cinder Cone and went past the Fantastic Lava Beds on our left to get there. On our right was some very open pine forest that would be good for orienteering. Our progress hiking was slow, but with enough breaks for Samantha, we made it. The smoky and dark sky was fitting for seeing the cinder cone. Had we had more time, Max and I might have gone up it 700 ft. in a half mile. It was start and had a few trees growing on it. From where we were, we got some smoke obscured glimpses of the famed Painted Sand Dunes (what seemed to be rhyolite-like formations) from the eruption which happened only around the year 1650. Max and I went a little further than Samantha and Peggy; just past the saddle, to see the other side of the cinder cone. An earlier hiker had left 10 pine cones on the trail and in the cinder sand, had them inside a rectangle made by dragging a foot. This was a bowling alley. Max and I used small rocks to knock them down. We reset the lane before we left. Our hike back was fast. It was gently downhill and were trying to catch-up with Peggy and Samantha. Our walking fast became competitive, with Max edging me out at the end. Of course, he wasn't carrying my 20 lbs. of camera gear. :)
We hiked a trail to get close to an old Cinder Cone and went past the Fantastic Lava Beds on our left to get there. On our right was some very open pine forest that would be good for orienteering. Our progress hiking was slow, but with enough breaks for Samantha, we made it. The smoky and dark sky was fitting for seeing the cinder cone. Had we had more time, Max and I might have gone up it 700 ft. in a half mile. It was start and had a few trees growing on it. From where we were, we got some smoke obscured glimpses of the famed Painted Sand Dunes (what seemed to be rhyolite-like formations) from the eruption which happened only around the year 1650. Max and I went a little further than Samantha and Peggy; just past the saddle, to see the other side of the cinder cone. An earlier hiker had left 10 pine cones on the trail and in the cinder sand, had them inside a rectangle made by dragging a foot. This was a bowling alley. Max and I used small rocks to knock them down. We reset the lane before we left. Our hike back was fast. It was gently downhill and were trying to catch-up with Peggy and Samantha. Our walking fast became competitive, with Max edging me out at the end. Of course, he wasn't carrying my 20 lbs. of camera gear. :)
Running 23:32 [3] 2.07 mi (11:22 / mi) +21m 11:02 / mi
(injured)
Lassen National Park, CA, at Manzanita Lake. Max and I set off to jog around the lake while Peggy waited with Samantha. We'd moved west from our hike earlier this morning and the sky was completely different. It was blue. Max and I had taken our phones with us and we stopped several times to snap pictures of the Lassen volcano reflected in the lake. The trails around the lake forked a lot. Max was running faster and we probably diverged routes. This was my first running in a while.
