The skies were gray all day long, but they cleared a bit near the end of the day when I took this photo of Crater Lake from near Sentinel Rock. Unfortunately, my memory of this location is not a good one as our bikes had just been stolen. How can bikes you are riding get stolen you ask?
As mentioned before the day had its low points. The ride was about twice as long as anticipated and after 20 miles my legs began to cramp. A few miles later we hitched a ride and hid our bikes off the road with the intention of getting a ride to our car, driving our car back, and picking up the bikes. All went as planned until we got back and found the bikes missing. A dishonest someone must have seen us hiding the bikes. 
The only silver lining is that my bike was in need of an overhaul anyway, and Ryan is getting too tall for his.
August 28th, 2010 | Tags: biking, clouds, crater lake, skywatch | Category: places | Comments (2)
These little chipmunk-looking squirrels are all over the place at Crater Lake. They will gladly eat right out of your hand should you want to share your lunch.
August 27th, 2010 | Tags: crater lake, wildlife | Category: places | Comments (1)
You may have seen this on the news (as I just saw it on the Today Show). We had a fire in town yesterday that burned 11 homes and a barn to the ground. Today’s pic was my view from home. Helicopters were flying water in from Emigrant Lake for hours.
More details on the fire can be found here.
August 25th, 2010 | Category: only in ashland | Comments (1)
The Cleetwood Cove section of Crater Lake was much bluer than the rest. I have no idea why. I was surprised the lake was so blue on a day with mostly gray clouds. Count on a temperature much cooler than you may expect at Crater Lake. We were in the 60s most of the day even though I was expecting 70s. If you are biking it around the lake, 60s are fine for uphill portions (of which there are many on Rim Drive), but things got a little cold on the downhill stretches, even with two shirts.
August 24th, 2010 | Tags: crater lake | Category: places | Comments (2)
Ryan and I went for a bike ride around Crater Lake this past Saturday. It was a day filled with many highs and many lows. I’ll share some of those, and some photos, over the coming week.
The first “low” was that the road is much longer than I anticipated. A friend told me it takes 2.5 hours on a bike, but we did not find that to be the case. Crater Lake is about 5 miles across. Using the old equation of πr2 (pie r squared) yields a circumference much smaller than the road that goes around the crater, which we found out after the fact is 36 miles in length. You are not actually on the rim of the crater for very long or in many places on the “Rim Road.” Usually you are on the outside of the rim, with just occasional glimpses of the beauty of the lake.
August 23rd, 2010 | Tags: biking, crater lake | Category: places | Leave a comment
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