Crater Lake Snowshoe

Drove down to Crater Lake National Park with a great group of women for snowshoeing. When we first arrived the weather was better than expected, wonderful blue skies!!! The south rim is at 7,100 ft in elevation.

 Although it soon became cloudy, we always had good local views. Very happy! We did two snowshoe trips. One a ranger led snowshoe towards the southeast rim, part way along the Hemlock Trail and where ever our ranger guide led us. This was about 2 miles. Our second snowshoe was on our own to Destination Point about 2.5 miles. Lots of fun!

 Our Ranger, Adamas, very informative and interesting.












Panorama from the southeast view.

view to the southeast, looking towards the Klamath Basin.

Tried sliding down the hill on my belly, but the snow was to powdery, so I had to get up and walk down. Fun trying!

More panoramic views of Crater lake:

 a good reminder not to get too close to the edge of the rim, especially with the cornices

 Part of the West Rim Trail took us away from the lake views. This was a fairly flat trail, until we went up the hill near Destination Point.

Panoramic View near Destination Point

 watching the sun go down to the west

 Panorama view of Crater Lake in the darkening skies.