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I’ve got to catch up on this thread...
I went on my annual summer trip in August. Logged over 6000 trouble free miles in about 30 days or so. Mostly living out of the cruiser. It was quite comfortable and I’m happy with my setup so far.
The trip started in Colorado at the Solid Axle Summit where I almost rolled the truck going up Engineer...
Leaving Colorado, I traveled up to Montana to help my dad move down to Texas. After that, I traveled through Yellowstone NP from the north entrance and exited the western entrance into Idaho. Since I’ve been to Yellowstone several times, I didn’t stop to take in the sights. My goal was to make it to Craters of the Moon NM. This is a cool park where they trained Apollo 11 astronauts on volcanic geology. At the time, it was assumed that most craters in the actual moon were volcanic in nature. That turned out not to be true, but they were well trained just in case. This area of Idaho really did have a moonscape look and feel to it.
I camped on some BLM land somewhere in Idaho and got up early to make it to my next stop, Crater Lake NP in Oregon. Apparently, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the US at around 2000 feet deep. The lake was formed as the snowmelt drains into the core of an ancient volcano. With no natural outlet for the water to drain out to, the lake level just continued to rise. I’m. Not sure what keeps the water at its current level now, but it sure is beautiful. Here’s a no filter photo. The water is indeed that blue!
From Crater Lake, I travelled south into California. My next destination Would be Yosemite NP.
From Yosemite and continued South into Sequoia NP to the land of giant 2000 year old trees!
The journey will continue on my next post...
I went on my annual summer trip in August. Logged over 6000 trouble free miles in about 30 days or so. Mostly living out of the cruiser. It was quite comfortable and I’m happy with my setup so far.
The trip started in Colorado at the Solid Axle Summit where I almost rolled the truck going up Engineer...
Leaving Colorado, I traveled up to Montana to help my dad move down to Texas. After that, I traveled through Yellowstone NP from the north entrance and exited the western entrance into Idaho. Since I’ve been to Yellowstone several times, I didn’t stop to take in the sights. My goal was to make it to Craters of the Moon NM. This is a cool park where they trained Apollo 11 astronauts on volcanic geology. At the time, it was assumed that most craters in the actual moon were volcanic in nature. That turned out not to be true, but they were well trained just in case. This area of Idaho really did have a moonscape look and feel to it.
I camped on some BLM land somewhere in Idaho and got up early to make it to my next stop, Crater Lake NP in Oregon. Apparently, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the US at around 2000 feet deep. The lake was formed as the snowmelt drains into the core of an ancient volcano. With no natural outlet for the water to drain out to, the lake level just continued to rise. I’m. Not sure what keeps the water at its current level now, but it sure is beautiful. Here’s a no filter photo. The water is indeed that blue!
From Crater Lake, I travelled south into California. My next destination Would be Yosemite NP.
From Yosemite and continued South into Sequoia NP to the land of giant 2000 year old trees!
The journey will continue on my next post...