And right down the road there is an ocean view.
Twins.
The morning view
The weather cleared today
The mountain came out a little.
Then it came out a lot.
We drove on to Crescent City and found a campsite in the redwoods.
So secluded we didn’t need to put up any of the window curtains.
It’s a wonderful forest. Some of the trees that remain are big.
Some of the trees that were here before were Really big.
Logging started as early as the 1850s, but the biggest trees were relatively safe. It took an entire crew over a week to fell and process just one tree, so they focused on the more manageable ones. With modern machinery though, the old growth in this area was logged out mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of those big trees were two thousand years old. Some forest has been preserved and we can expect it to return to mostly normal in another thousand years or so.
We did not pay $6 a gallon for gasoline today
We did pay $5.999 though.
We came to Mount Shasta to get a close-up look at it. A cold rainy cloudy day, this is the best we got.
Looking back down from as high as we could drive, we got this shot of Mount Shasta’s mini me though.
Our next-door neighbor.
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Some Huge pinecones.
And Jesse got to play in the snow.
A drive through Northern California forests
A viewpoint where we could stand in one spot and see Mount Lassen
and Mount Shasta.
A few wildflowers.
And a camp spot in the trees.
We did a stopover at Eagle Lake along the way to see if it was still as nice as we remembered. Yes.