They don’t do any plays at OSF on Monday, so I decided to take a little trip up and see Crater Lake. It took about 2 hours to get there from Ashland, with lots of driving on windy roads through thick forests. It was definitely worth the drive. It’s a very impressive place: a 1900′ deep lake filling a volcano, surrounded by the sharp jagged edges of the remaining cone. Driving the rim road sometimes felt like you were on a razors edge, with a narrow road with sharp drop offs to either side.
The only downside was from a photographic perspective. It was pretty overcast most of the day (which may have been a mixture of smoke and clouds), and the light was never great. But I did take a bunch of pictures. And before I got all the way around, I saw a forest fire off in the distance to the north. There must be a lot of those in Oregon, because the air is hazy and you could even smell the smoke in Ashland last night.