It was fun!! Alot of driving as usual!!
Lassen Volcanic National Park is apparently another active Geothermal area in the US!! I shouldn't be surprised considering the plate tectonics out here in CA!! But hey I grew up thinking Yellowstone was the only place in the continental US with geysers, fumeroles and mudpots!!
I know of tons of hotsprings...but never that stuff!! : )
http://www.nps.gov/lavo/planyourvisit/index.htm
I didn't study volcanoes much in school. They had an interesting display at the visitors center. The park has examples of all four types of volcanoes.
Fumeroles at Bumpass Hell...trust me it smelled like boiled eggs...there is a reason they are called fumeroles!!
Lassen Peak
Vulcans eye on Lassen Peak
I got my Aspen fix!!
Sunset coming out of the park
By the end of the day I was driving in the dark through an X- Files scene! Then through the trees I see this sign on the side of the road! I was expecting deer maybe...but cow?? Yup definitely and X FILES scene!
Hey! What are those things in the sky? Beautiful at sunrise!!
Lake Shasta DamApparently the second largest Dam in the country...It has the second most amount of Concrete. A Dam in Washington has more!! Hoover Dam is like 4 or 5 on the list!! That surprised me!!
Others visiting the dam early!
So a town or two disappeared when they built the dam... but the dam does supply energy to most of the West coast and mid portion of the US. The dam was paid off in 1988 and it MAKES money every year since then!
Shasta Mountain! A fourteener in Northern CA!
We can't walk over the Kensico Dam in NY but we can enter the hydro electric plant at the dam in CA that supplies energy to most of the US...ok...I get it???? NOT!!
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So how was your dam tour of Bumpass Hell?
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