Walk in the June snow

Slightly thwarted today by roads closed by snow when they should have been cleared already, but we made it eventually to a nice lake in the Cascades for a walk. The kids are used to being hauled on long walks back at home, and at least this had the added attractions of snow on the trail and the imminent threat of a bear attack (or so we told the kids anyway - good way to keep them on the trail).

And to think we think we're badly off in the UK if a road is closed for more than a few hours by snow.... Here there are roads they're not expecting to open until mid-July. And it was still snowing a few days ago. Bit of a contrast from yesterday's desert experience!

Back to the lake: it's called Clear Lake and was formed when a river was dammed by a lava flow. You can apparently still see the skeletons of submerged trees (it happened about 3000 years ago) - though we didn't. The lake was crystal clear though - even on this slightly dull day.

South of here are a couple of fab waterfalls where the river flows over more lava flows, but it was a bit scarily wet there with the spray to have the camera out for long!

(No bears.)

Edit:
Added yesterday's blip here.here

And the one that went awry a few days ago

re-edit. Ok. 7 times of trying and I still can't get those links to show up right! I give up.