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I woke up early Monday morning and started out from Sunnyvale
at 8:15am. I stopped just once, in Willows, arriving at the southwest
park entrance at 12:45pm. I asked the park ranger there about
Brokeoff Mountain, which I intended to do the next day. She said
the trail was in fine shape, but to watch out for thunderstorms.
It hadn't stormed recently, but you never know. I intended to
get an early start.
I kept driving to the Summit Lake - North campground, elevation
6900 feet. My first impression is that there weren't many people
here. Considering it was a Monday, that wasn't too surprising.
I had my pick of campsites, and settled on B24, only about 50-100
feet from Summit Lake itself.
The campsite has nice clean bathrooms, spacious campsites, and
a beautiful lake. Under darkening sky I quickly set up camp. Then
I started walking right out of camp to Lower Twin Lake.
After the hike I had dinner and then quickly started driving north
along the park road, trying to find a place to take sunset pictures.
The colors had looked nice from camp, but the trees had been in
the way. Unfortunately, by the time I found a decent place, the
clouds and colors were gone. I settled on stopping at the Devastated
Area parking lot and taking an uncolorful picture from there.
The Devastated Area was blasted by a pyroclastic flow from the
1915 eruption.
Lassen Peak covered by clouds as seen from Devastated Area
Back at camp, I tried my weather radio. No luck. Cell phone --
spotty reception. I also noticed that my rechargeable batteries
(even with a full charge) were not happy with the cold weather.
I took some pictures of the stars and trees before heading into
the tent, where it was a lovely 43 degrees at 9:20pm.
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