We have been at Lake of the Woods, Orgeon. We stayed in a beautiful, giant wooden home in the forest. It was so far out from civilization! We had no cell phone coverage.
We were just off of Route 140, east of Medford,OR. As we drove out today, we passed the giant lava fields that come right down to the road. There were several big fields that touched the road. They are from Brown Mountain. I was really surprised when I google mapped it to see we were only seeing about 1% of the lava fields. It exploded 2000 years ago. We were staying only a few miles from it. It is still mostly bare, except for the lava fields all over.
We have a hard day driving today. A very long day in the SUV. We have to get all the way up to WA. It is the July Fourth weekend, and the is a touch of traffic. We are heading up to a house in woods, near Mount St. Helens. The kids are so excited! I am pretty sure we did not expect to see so many volcanoes. None of us realized that there were so many in the USA, and that they have recently exploded as recently as 700 years ago! This seems to be a volcano trip!
Day 38 Lake of the Woods
We all stayed home to repack our infamous rubbermaids. We are always struggling with rearranging our belongings. We managed to combine all the things we bought in to two bins to be mailed soon to NY. Geoff on the other hand had an itch. You see, he was all done limping from the Grand Canyon run, so why not run up a mountain? He found a high mountain nearby, actually across from Brown mountain. It is about 10,000 feet high. He of course ran up and down in 6 hours, rather than the advertised 12 hours. This time I drove him to the trailhead at noon at least! He enjoyed it and had a great time. He loved his time away from a packing! The mountain below is Mount McLoughlin it is a steep-sided lava cone built on top of a shield volcano.
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