Mt. Lassen Volcanic National Park

Jeff and I had an amazing weekend at Mt. Lassen Volcanic National Park over Labor Day Weekend. We left on Friday and got back on Monday. Catherine and Court, Gabby and Humberto, and the Schrag's joined in on the weekend fun. We were able to see a lot of really cool things, so here is a picture journal of our weekend:
We set up camp on Friday night and just hung around the fire. The next morning, we drove to Burley Falls. I think they are my favorite falls we have been to.
The falls are all spring fed so they don't dry up. We were able to climb pretty close to the base.
We walked around some trails by the falls. Gabby is showing off her Limbo skills below!
Later that day, we went through Subway Cave. The pictures didn't really turn out. Subway Cave is 1/3 mile in length and is a dried up lava tube. It is actually one section of a 16-mile long cave. It was pretty neat to walk through.
On Sunday morning we drove into the park and walked to Cold Boiling Lake. The picture below shows how big the "lake" was at this time!

We then hiked on along trails. The views were amazing!
We finally got to Bumpass Hell. (yes, that is the actual name) It is a sulpher bed that you are able to walk through. It was pretty smelly though!
We went back to the campground after that. We decided to go swimming in the lake and enjoy time by the camp-fire. Jeff, Cat, Court, and I got up early on Monday morning and hiked to Cinder Cone. It is an inactive volcano. The climb up is at a 30-degree angle and it was all soft sand and rock - very hard to climb, but well worth it!
We were able to see the "inside" of the volcano - it is pretty full of dried lava, but is very cool! Below - we had a great time taking shadow pictures!! Mt. Lassen is in the background.

We had amazing views from the top of Cinder Cone! Besides Mt. Lassen, we could also see the painted dunes and a lot of lava beds.

The picture of Jeff below just makes me smile :-)


We drove through the park on our way home. Above is a picture of Mt. Lassen's peak and below is a picture of Sulpher Works.

We had a great mini-vacation, but were very excited to get back to our apartment and take showers and have warm water! Everything else is going great! Will update more soon!