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Lava flow near Butte Lake |
Cinder Cone Volcano |
View of the different angles of repose on each side |
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Painted Dunes, with the Fantastic Lava Beds behind them |
The trail up to the top of Cinder Cone. It's 846 ft total elevation gain for the entire 4 mile round trip trail, but I think it's only 700 ft from the base of Cinder Cone to the top. |
Hiking up loose cinders sucks. Take one step up, slide half a step back... |
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At the top of Cinder Cone |
Lassen Peak |
The trails along the top |
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Fantastic Lava Beds, basalt lava that flowed out of ruptures at the base of Cinder Cone |
Painted Dunes |
The Painted Dunes get their name from the oxidized cinder and ash that blanket them |
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Painted Dunes |
Mt. Hoffman straight ahead |
Ash Butte straight ahead |
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The Cinder Cone crater |
At the bottom of the crater |
Shit, now I have to hike back up |
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Wall of the crater |
Don't slip. Looks like a mini cheese grater. |
Crater rim trail |
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Snag Lake off in the distance |
Here you can see where the lava was flowing out of the base of Cinder Cone |
View from the west |
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Painted Dunes seen from ground level |
There used to be two different parks in 1907 - Lassen Peak National Monument and Cinder Cone National Monument. They were combined into Lassen Volcanic National Park in 1916. |
Close-up of the oxidized cinder and ash |
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Painted Dunes |
Jeffrey Pine along the trail |
Jeffrey Pine |
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Lava flow going right up to the edge of Butte Lake |
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Nice aim |