-- John D

Some of the lava flows had very distinct edges. Where the trail leads across these lava flows, it shows the work that the trail builders put in to make it easy to walk across.

A feature on the East side of South Sister.

More rock that is layered was exposed by running water.

This is another lava flow which has a very steep wall.

South Sister is still visible.

At the Green Lakes region, you can see several mountains including Broken Top to the South East, and Middle Sister to the North West.

South Sister is still visible to the West.

The Green Lakes really are green.

We had a steep climb out of the Green Lakes region and up to about 7,000 ft.

Middle and North Sister start to come into view.

At the top of the pass, just before descending, we had lunch while we took in the remarkable views. South Sister was behind us to the South West, and the mountains to the North came into view including Mt. Jefferson and Mt. Hood.

The scouts played in the snow before we started down into the lower elevations.

We made it down into Park Meadows and took a rest. We had to keep moving because of bugs.

The water in the stream going into Red Meadows was quite red. There were quite a few of these one log bridges which had been damaged by winter snow or other factors. Luckily, none of the damage caused any great inconvenience.

We spent the night at a pair of twin lakes which had a steady wind which kept the bugs mostly under control. This lake had a resident Blue Heron.

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