Burgers and beer on the outdoor patio while watching a man reel in a trout with a fly rod and a dog joyfully retrieve a buoy repeatedly thrown in the lake by its owner. Needless to say removing obsidian from the park is illegal and comes with a hefty fine.Īfterwards we lunched at the other lake in the caldera, East Lake. Today thin blades of obsidian are placed in scalpels used for high precision surgery. Incisions from obsidian blades healed without a trace whereas the steel blades left huge scars. In the 1970s, doctors performed open heart surgery using both steel and obsidian scalpels. Obsidian is a high luster naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock (I have no idea what that means). We’re told that two weeks ago the place was covered in snow, the viewpoint inaccessible. The trail meandered through mounds of pumice and obsidian and despite the 75 degree weather, patches of snow. Bachelor, and the Three Sisters mountains. We hiked the Big Obsidian Flow, the youngest lava flow in Oregon at a mere 1300 years, for scenic views of Paulina Lake, Mt. I didn’t think there was much to write about here as a result, but we’re here several days to visit Mark’s niece and she’s taken us to places we didn’t know existed, such as Newberry National Volcanic Monument. We’re still in familiar territory with decades full of memories of fun family vacations in Sunriver, Bend, and neighboring areas. Oregon gas is $1.00 less per gallon than California. LaPine State Park on the Deschutes River in La Pine, OR (south of Bend).
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