LesMascaut

Newberry Crater... it's last eruption of activity created the Big Obsidian Flow. It happened about 1300 years ago, and caused masses of Obsidian to be scattered everywhere with big lava flows. Big Obsidian Flow is about 1.8 kilometers (6,000 feet) long and locally thicker than 20 meters (65 feet). The Obsidian pieces run enormous here. The boulders are really amazing to see in person. Obsidian is volcanic glass, and this area is coated with it. Apparently we were just a few days shy of a mass migration of frogs at the Big Obsidian Flow. Turns out, that in August thousands and thousands of frogs, make a mass migration UP and over the flow from lost lake down below. They don't know why they do this, as it is bizarre for them to go up and ... read more

For our second road/camping trip, we decided to head back to East Lake. We really enjoyed our night over there, and we decided on some areas over in that region. This trip we did 784 miles/ 1261 kilometers. The main roads had more people on them than the first trip but that because we were in more populated area's, the forest roads had barely any people. We put our annual forest road pass to use on this trip. We stopped for gas and to eat in Sisters Oregon. We really liked the town when we drove thru it the last time around, so decided to check it out more, and it was on our route. We stopped to eat. Maco had rainbow trout, he said it was the best fish he had ever had. I ... read more