Greetings from Crater Lake National Park

Our first ever visit to Crater Lake National Park was with friends in the dead of winter with a thick fog punctuated with snow flakes. We all walked up to the south shoreline to just barely see Wizard Island covered with a blizzard of moving clouds and misty strands of fog stretching out over the lake like spider’s legs preventing any future eruption that would radically disrupt the serenity and calm of the snowy shoreline with rising mountains above this little wizard of an island. Some ten years later we arrived at the northern end of the lake on a sparkling clear September day. We anxiously followed a trail that led us up to the rim where were were amazed to view the entire lake with rising mountains and little Wizard Island in such clarity that we could reach out to seemingly touch each detail of what lay before us under bright blue skies.

Sincerely,
Richard