While in Klamath Falls we took a day and drove up to Crater Lake.  We waited for more than a week to get a clear day instead of cloudy, but what we got instead was a smoky day due to fires burning around (but not in) Klamath Falls.

We still had a great time at several overlooks where the lake, the island and the formations at the rim of the lake were visible.  The rim road was not open the whole way around the lake due to road work, so we had to drive one way a little more than half way and then turn around and go back to the main visiters center and then drive the other way for a little more than quarter way and turn around.  It actually worked out good because there are formations that you can only see driving in one direction.  We missed them driving the other direction so if we had been able to circle the rim we would have missed several really cool features of the lake area.

We also took a side drive to a place called Pinnacles where there are many feet of ash that was sculpted by erosion into weird spiky formations.

Even though it was smoky and several pictures just didn’t come out very good. We got several good pictures showing the area.  Here they are: