First Day Wrap Up

It’s been a successful first day on the road.  I didn’t crash the car, it’s not currently raining and I saw Crater Lake.  I even took a couple pictures up there at Crater Lake, but the lighting wasn’t the best. 

On the way down here the weather was great until about 20 miles before where I planned to camp.  It was POURING down rain.  Not )some drizzle, I mean RAIN.  I hadn’t seen it rain that hard since I was in Manaus, Brazil.  I was a tad bit nervous about trying to camp in the what was looking to be miserable weather.   When I reached the camp is was raining, but not cats ‘n dogs.  So, I scoped out the camp ground and it was pretty much empty which meant I had plenty of time to hopefully wait out the rain and go do other stuff before setting up camp.

I stopped off in Prospect, OR to fill up the tank.  It’s a nice sleepy little town that reminded me a lot of my home town, White Salmon, WA.  Well, more like the White Salmon I grew up in. 

Anyways, after filling up the tank I headed up to Crater Lake to see if it was raining up there.  Funny thing was that 5 miles out from the camp it was sunny.  You just can’t get enough of Oregon weather.  Up at the top there was some clouds, but much to my relief no rain.  I hadn’t been to Crater Lake since I was something like 12 or 13.  I remembered it being bigger and a lot higher at the rim then it actually is.  Still a beautiful sight to see though.  Like I said before, the lighting wasn’t great, but here’s a shot that turned out half way good. 

I plan to head back up there bright ‘n early in the morning to catch the sunrise.  As long as the sun is out, you can’t go wrong with that “golden hour” light. Hopefully it won’t be too cloudy or even worse, raining.

After messing around a bit up there at Crater Lake I headed back down the hill.  By the time I got back the rain was gone, so I picked a camp site away from everyone else plus had some trees growing close enough together for rain proofing my camp.  After the torrential down pour I saw earlier, I wasn’t going to take any chances.  I’m actually pretty proud of how my rain proofing turned out, but knowing my luck it won’t even rain tonight.  :\

Maybe it’s a bit overboard, but I hate a wet tent, so this should do the trick.

Ok, it’s getting close to 10:00 and 5 AM comes pretty darn early.