Today we spent the day touring Lassen. It is a beautiful park! It has the bluest skies, greenest trees, and a blue-blue Lake Helen which is one of my favorite pictures in the collage below!
Many eons ago lava flowed from the Lassen Peak Volcano then cooled and hardened. The volcano's crater collapsed and on the side of the rock is a formation that looks like an eye. It is said that the formation was named after Vulcan, the God of Volcanos and Fire! It is therefore the Vulcan's Eye! The picture below is a closeup picture of the eye. In the collage above, the eye is in the middle picture over lake Helen.
It was a surprise to me to see so much snow! The higher we drove (the summit is 8,511 feet) the more snow we started to see. It was in the high 50's at the summit at noon and in the 80's at the campground in the late afternoon. It was 41 degrees at 7:00 this morning when Max and I took our walk!
I just wish the pictures could show how beautiful Lassen Park is because... "Ain't Life Grand"!
Many eons ago lava flowed from the Lassen Peak Volcano then cooled and hardened. The volcano's crater collapsed and on the side of the rock is a formation that looks like an eye. It is said that the formation was named after Vulcan, the God of Volcanos and Fire! It is therefore the Vulcan's Eye! The picture below is a closeup picture of the eye. In the collage above, the eye is in the middle picture over lake Helen.
It was a surprise to me to see so much snow! The higher we drove (the summit is 8,511 feet) the more snow we started to see. It was in the high 50's at the summit at noon and in the 80's at the campground in the late afternoon. It was 41 degrees at 7:00 this morning when Max and I took our walk!
I just wish the pictures could show how beautiful Lassen Park is because... "Ain't Life Grand"!
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