Crater Lake

This is our Crater Lake Vacation 2006!!
We left from work at 6:00 PM on Friday night on our way up to Northern California. Our first stop is Chico State! Chico State was rated by playboy as the 2nd best party school in America. Check out the link: PlayBoy
We had a great time in Choc Partying with the Locals. It is about 4 hours away from the Bay Area so we got there in time for the party.
In the morning we kept on treking up north. On our way we encountered Mount Shasta. It is one of the biggest mountains in California. Check it out above. Amazing. After we got around Mount Shasta we encountered a city called Weed. This is a city that is very proud of their name. You can found souvenirs in their gift shops that say "I Love Weed". Anyway, we thought the Cop car picture below was a little amusing.
After we drove through Klamath falls we were starting to get close to Crater Lake. First we saw about a foot of snow on the ground. As we kept on driving, the snow kept getting deeper and deeper. As you can see below the snow depth got very very deep. The snow height was above the height of the car. It was really amazing. Crater Lake is one of the spots in America that get the most snow. Check out how high the snow is compared to our MiniVan below.
We finally reached Crater Lake and we very very Amazed. Crater lake used to be a mountain the existed a long time ago. During a volcanic eruption, the Mountain caved in on itself loosing about 1000 feet of height. The caldera of the Volcano slowly collected water over the years and eventually became known as Crater Lake. This is one of the deepest lakes in North America. The water is really blue!
There is still a lot of snow there at Crater Lake and we could not drive around the caldera. We were able to get a very spectacular view of the lake.
After we saw crater lake we headed out to the Oregon Coast. By the way Crater Lake is in the city of Oregon. We saw some very nice scenery along the way like this river below.
We crossed the border into Northern California in Crescent City and we were able to catch this magnificant sun set. Another interesting fact about crescent city is that it is the only place in North America to suffer a fatality due to Tsunamis. As we drove around northern California we were confronted with many evacuation paths in the case of Tsunamis.
We started heading south down the coast and we confronted the great Redwood forests. One of the spots that we stopped off at was the Pual Bunyan tribute you can see below. We got see some really tall trees.
Some of the trees were so big that you can drive through them. Check out the picture below were we could actually drive through the tree.
We continued to drive down the coast and check out Highway one. After this trip I pretty much drove on evry mile of Highway One in California. It was very amazing. We also stopped in Eureka to see the Lost Coast Brewery were we had some lunch and good beer. The west coast is a very pretty place and this turned out to be a very very great trip!