After that it was mostly up and down for the rest of the day. One nice thing was lining out behind a tandem for @40 miles. Worked great. One striking part of today was another bed of extraordinary lava fields. These differed from yesterday in that this field about 50 miles south of Bend was much older that the field on Makenzie Pass yesterday. Today's field evidently was a product of the eruption of Mt. Mazama that created Crater Lake @7700 years ago. The Makenzie pass lava by contrast was from only around 1500-1700 years ago. Today we also passed through an enormous plain that burned in 2003. It was a remarkable space and the way that the growth is beginning to reemerge. None of this was what could be called photogenic but it was interesting to pass through.
AfThis evening we are staying at Diamond Lake
in some quite funky cabins. I am confident, however, that they will sleep well.
Tomorrow on the way to Ashland we are stopping at Crater Lake. It seems that on this trip we are hitting all the high spots. Why should tomorrow be different. Tomorrows course is much easier than the last couple days: 110 miles with some climbing in the beginning and then mostly flat and down the rest of the way. Should be good.
The connection here is very poor so no marginally useful data. Tomorrow. You will just have to wait.
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