After the hike at Chaos Crags, I wanted to catch the sunset at Manzanita Lake. And boy, what a treat. This is the view I had while eating my dinner. There’s an ethereal beauty attached to long summer days, and it’s a nice sigh of relief to watch the sun go down. And even after…
The trailhead is at an interesting location, with a slight turnout on the left hand side when heading to the Manzanita Campground. It looks like a random pull-out section and when I finished my hike, some cars passed by wondering what I was doing at such an odd location. (There is a sign confirming that…
This area is aptly named Devastated Area because of all of the remnants of the volcanic rock and ash that the volcano ejected on May 22, 1915. In June of 1914, Lassen began to rumble and tremble and continued to have 150 small eruptions, forming the crater until the volcano erupted on May 19, heaving…