ELEVATION 5000 FEET ...

There must have been a rush on 5000’ Elevation signs, as all day on our 286 mile journey to Susanville CA, via the backroads, we saw many elevation signs, and they all read “Elevation 5000 Feet”.  We stopped to see Anne Creek Falls on Hwy 62 before we turned off on another Scenic Byway that would take us from Fort Klamath along the west side of Upper Klamath  Lake (OR).  We followed OR 140 to Klamath Falls and OR 39 and CA 139 to Susanville CA.  I loved the sign on an old building in Fort Klamath which wins the “name of the trip” award...  Gingham Frog Ceramics.  Makes a creative person conjure up fabulous fantasies from days gone by.  We enjoyed forests, waterfalls, pastures, farmland, more mountains, lakes and high desert (5000’) along the way!!!  The most fun today was planting a geocache travel bug of a duck that Don picked up in Oregon near the Crooked River on 7/8.   Don placed it in Tulelake CA - a major bird sanctuary - where he is sure to enjoy a rest, a swim and perhaps meet many new friends!!!

After 37 days, we are “fat and happy” and trying to decide our favorite things.  Tomorrow we Head for the Barn (only 185 miles from here), to complete our 3,950 mile driving “Wander”...  which did not include 2 days of FLYING, 7 days of CRUISING and 5 days of WALKING around Sitka and Juneau AK.  We visited AK, WA, OR, CA, NV and BC Canada (including all of Vancouver Island)... and loved every minute of it.  If you haven’t been following the blog till now, we invite you to backtrack and catch up with us by opening June and selecting NW 2013, then work your way up to today!!!

In summary, I shot over  2500 video clips and photos...edited video about 3.5 hours of video (about 2/3rds of what I shot), and I’ll have to weed thru all those stills... but you've seen the best of best.  Of course I'll save many more.  And, if you're so inclined, stop by throughout the summer as I'll post some "hiking the high sierra photos" now and then plus any other exciting "wandering" we might do.  Thanks for tagging along.

This is not sandstone.  It is the pale-buff dacite pumice
layer of material that lies below the grey andesite scoria
layer...just as you saw in yesterday's Pinnacles, which
gave them their light base color.

Fort Klamath Hotel - home of

the Gingham Frog Ceramics - many years ago

A couple shots of Upper Klamath Lake from the West Shore.

Black Angus leading the good life...

Not that we needed it, but "big red" gets a wash as
Klamath Falls Swim Team does a fund raiser.

I loved the window box decoration across the street.

Eagle Lake just north of Susanville CA

After all those trees, mountains, glaciers & lakes
this meadow deserved a photo...

Where Don "planted" his duck geocache "bug"

Last Mountain - Mt Shasta again as we return home
38 days later...from the East side.   That's a wrap!!!