| itinerary < 6 June Bend Chico Dancing > | Chico 7 June 2024 |
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Long travel day, 380+ miles, and in an unfamiliar car. But we made it!
Bend is lava country, with old volcanoes, cinder cones, and vents everywhere. Is it our imagination, or does the thinness of the Earth's crust have an effect on our emotions?
Pines thrive here.
Judging by a cut bank on the highway, this was once a lake or ocean bed, too.
First glimpse of Mother Mountain, Mount Shasta.
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Across Upper Klamath Lake
Mother Mountain gets closer . . .
and closer . . .
and closer . . . |
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We're in California now, and She looms larger.
More burned forest
She now fills the frame |
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Mother Mountain closest view
Trinity Alps
Shasta Valley
More high desert
Mount Shasta from downtown Weed
And then the Sacramento Valley, Highway 99, Chico, dinner at Grana, ice cream at Shubert's |
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