On the road from Mt. Lassen

Driving north from Mt. Lassen, in northern California, back towards Seattle, we stopped by the new visitors’ center:

The site chosen for this building was where the old chalet used to be, in the part of the park where I learned to ski in the 1980s. In 1992 the federal government decided they didn’t want to be in the business of running a downhill ski area (understandable), and took out both the lift system and, about ten years later, the old chalet itself. Everyone who didn’t grow up wearing a “Go Ski a Volcano” t-shirt can only try to imagine what once was here.

As befits an active geothermal zone, the Sulpher Works were busy as ever:

North of the park, we stopped by Middle McCloud Falls:

and interacted with the wildlife nearby: