Day 35 – Lassen Volcanic National Park

Well, we left Eagle Lake after a freezing night and headed for Lassen Volcanic National Park. We have quite a bit of road to cover by Thursday – about 900 miles and we still have to see Crater Lake and Mt. St. Helens. I am in a volcano phase right now!! It was a lovely drive to the park where there are the remnants of snow and it is quite cool.
The high point of the day was on one of the first stops in the park – the bubbling cauldron of sulphur spouting out of the side of a hill about four feet from where we were standing. It was cool to watch but even cooler to listen to it as it sounded just like a noisy washing machine. Warren says that there are far more views like this at Yellowstone so I can't wait for that! Very cool…. We did all the typical tourist things and learned a lot about what the volcanoes do so it was fun.


We then spent the rest of the day driving through some beautiful country as usual. A highlight of the afternoon was the wonderful views of Mt.Shasta which is really one of the larger mountains. We watched it for the better part of the afternoon from different angles. Beautiful mountain and Route 5 which is a super highway was extremely scenic through the Shasta Lake area. Warren would have liked to stop and kayak but we used up our extra time at Eagle Lake.