These photos are from the Sky Lakes Wilderness to Crater Lake National Park, except for the last photo - taken on days 4, 5 and 6 of our hike. On day 4 we left Island Lake with full water bottles and hiked almost all day before we could refill them at a small creek just north of Devils Peak. On day 5 we again filled our water bottles and then made an off trail stop at Ranger Springs to fill our water bottles and my extra 2 liter platypus because that night would be a dry camp - a very heavy load for that afternoon!
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| Snow lakes basin from PCT. |
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| Luther Mountain which is just off the above photo to the right. |
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| PCT at Shale Butte area with large fire burning at the edge of Hemlock Lake basin. |
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| PCT between Shale Butte and Devils Peak - very narrow trail in places with a few hundred feet of open rock below, so no missed steps advised! |
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| Nanc at rest stop before heading down the north side of Devils Peak. |
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| Looking north from the saddle at Devils Peak with trail at left center of photo. |
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| Small meadow where we stopped for night on 4th day. There was a small stream running through it for water. Large numbers of Clark's Nutcrackers flew into the area at dusk, being quite vocal. |
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| Ranger Spring. |
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| Another view of Ranger Spring. |
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| A large, old fire that we hiked through for a number of miles in the area of Jack Spring. |
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| Another view of the same fire area. |
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| Our first view of the rim at Crater Lake on the morning of the 6th day. |
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| A rocky ridge shortly before getting to the national park boundary. |
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| The top of Union Peak which is inside the national park. |
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| This is the view south from the rim of Crater Lake National Park on the evening of our 6th day. I assume the large smoke plume is from the fire we passed in the area of Shale Butte on day 4. We heard from hikers headed south today that the PCT was closed in the Devils Peak area - I guess we made it through just in time! |
More photos to come shortly.
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