Vacation: Ash Creek Butte

The objective of the day was to summit Ash Creek Butte and find the geocache there. Our approach was off of highway 97 on Military Pass Road. This is the same road taken to access the trailheads up to the Mount Shasta glaciers. We had gone about a mile when we encountered U.S. Forest Service […]

Vacation: Alturas to Weed via Tule Lake

Today was primarily a day of checking out Lava Beds National Monument. I was tired of lugging the camera around, so there are no photos.

From Alturas we backtracked to Canby and took 139 towards Tule Lake. We took the back way into the Lava Beds, stopping at a couple of geocaches near interesting lava […]

Vacation: McCloud to Alturas

Middle Falls

Spending a night in McCloud was certainly a quiet experience. Even though our B&B room overlooked the main street, there wasn’t any traffic after about 8 pm. Since breakfast (a voucher at the café in the McCloud River Mercantile building) was served from 8 to 10 am, and we were up early, we […]