RHH's photos with the keyword: mount mazama

This view across Crater Lake in Oregon has Mount Scott in the background. There is a trail to the top of the mountain and a lookout there, but the road on that side of the crater was still closed by snow when we were there in June.

The rim of the crater at Crater Lake National Park is at an altitude of 7-8000 feet (21-2400 m) and so the scenery and plants all alpine and the trees near the timberline. This tree was at one of the lookouts along the west rim drive.

We did not see a lot of birds in Crater Lake National Park but did see and photograph this Clark's Nutcracker at one of the turnouts along the West Rim Drive.

This is Crater Lake in Oregon with Wizard Island on the right. Crater Lake is an old volcanic cone that has filled with water over the millennia and Wizard Island is a newer volcanic cone that has pushed up from the bottom of the crater. The photo was taken from the West Rim Drive. The East Rim Drive was not yet open at the time due to snow.

This is the newer volcanic cone of Wizard Island in Crater Lake in Oregon. The cone can be visited by boat in the summer months, but none of the park services were open yet when we were there and the West Rim Drive had just been cleared of snow.

Here is Wizard Island in Crater Lake, Oregon, from the south rim of the crater. We had hoped to drive the whole rim of the crater but discovered that the East Rim Drive was still snowed in.

On a trip last summer down the Oregon coast to the California redwoods and back, we stopped at Crater Lake in central Oregon, arriving there at sunset one evening and leaving before noon the next day. Before leaving we drove nearly all the way around the crater. Crater Lake is a National Park that features an old volcanic crater now filled with water. The old volcanic cone, now gone, is known as Mount Mazama, and the crater, with its cinder island, Wizard Island, is six miles across and the lake nearly 2000 feet deep, a fantastic place. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/08/crater-lake...