Crater Lake Trail in Fish Lake National Forest, Utah - A Long Hike With Nothing To Talk About
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- This is an uncut hiking video of the Crater Lake Trail. The trailhead is located at the outlet of the one and only Fish Lake, and is about 2 miles hike to the view of the lakes. I'm sorry if it's not the greatest video, but I didn't have time to properly edit this one, and felt like it would be better to leave it as raw and uncut as possible.
It's an enjoyable hike, and I aim to keep you entertained with good conversation topics and interesting perspectives. I hope you'll enjoy this video. I'm still learning the best way to present my videos, so your feedback is always appreciated. Thank you so much for your support of this channel!
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Thanks so much for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed the trail!
Ya gotta get those Costco hotdogs! Undoubtedly, you've seen the films of the Mount St Helens explosion. That eruption took off the top 1,300 feet, but Mount Mazama's eruption took off more than a mile (to the bottom of Crater Lake). It took me a minute to snap to the fact you were in Utah, not Oregon, to explain. There is no way one could miss the "lake", at Crater Lake. I think the first time I saw it was in 1957 or '58. I haven't been back, since 1987, unfortunately. I guess I'm due. It's south-southwest of the Painted Hills I mentioned in another comment.
I've heard Costco has good hotdogs, but I'm swearing off all hotdogs for a while! Haha
I'll admit, I could have done a better job planning this video, but it was moreso a sidequest than the main destination, and I didn't have much energy to give to the thought. I probably should have mentioned that I was in Utah. I'll update the title at least. I may be spending more time in this area this summer, so I'll try to make a better video for the Crater Lakes if I can get around to it.
I'm definitely familiar with strata volcanos and their explosive nature. I wasn't around for St. Helens (born a few years later), but I've lived in the middle of an extinct strata volcano on and off for the last 12 years, and have been slowly piecing together the magnitude of it. There is a little resort in the middle of the mountain valley that is built on top of an andesite flow that was clearly a dome that formed after the mountain blew it's cap. By my estimations, the mountain I'm speaking of would have been no less than a mile taller than what it is today. There's also a number of strata volcanos along the Pacific Coast that are only noticeable by tiny remaining outcroppings, but it's believed that many mountains have completely destroyed themselves in this fashion, leaving, in some cases, virtually no evidence they ever existed.
Do you live in Cuba NM? I'm very familiar with Valle Caldera. I went to UNM a long time ago, spent a lot of time at Jemez Springs. My geology teacher at the time said it through rocks the size of a semi truck as far away as central Kansas!
The tsunami that tore into China returned (like pinballs do, not straight back, but whatever angle dictated by Earth's axial orientation, and its vector around Sol) filled the Big Valley of California, I expect, where it sat for a long time, eventually settling into the ground.
I remember being impressed, as a child, by the volcanic field north of Flagstaff, but I've seen quite a few, since. I was in WA, when Mt Baker was threatening to do what Mt St Helens did, 3 years later. I was in Portland, in July, 1980, when St Helens popped off five times one day. One of these eruptions caught some friends, as they were flying in.
The pilot was telling passengers about the eruption, and had just said, "We'll fly over, so you can see most of it", when the mountain let off a blast that went straight up to 25,000 ft! The plane, on approach to Portland Airport, bopped sideways, as the pilot let off a string of curse words. My friends were telling the story in the bar at hotel, laughing about it, but they'd already told me they'd had to change their underwear.
In 1986, I took my wife and son to Expo '86. I was telling my wife about the mountain, and the eruptions, saying, "It should be around here, somewhere, I don't recognize this desert", when I realized we were flying over the destruction left by the eruption. I've flown over it more'n a half-dozen times, since, but I know what to expect, and the land is beginning to recover. It rains a lot, in WA, and OR, so that helps.
Yeah, Costco sells a hot dog and drink for a buck fifty, although the "drink" is a soda head set to pour as thin a stream of syrup as possible. The hotdog is pretty good, though, and I've never had a bad reaction.
To see St. Helens in action would have been terrifying, I'm sure. It's only a small glimpse of the energy our planet could unleash at any given moment... Kind of like my guts after eating maverick hotdogs! Ha!
The mountain I'm speaking of is in Arizona about 100 miles west of Flagstaff on the east edge of the Mojave Desert. A smaller sky island when compared to San Francisco Peaks or Mt. Lemmon, but it certainly makes a spectacle on the skyline, and is host to a unique microclimate and ecology. I'm talking about the Hualapai Mountains of course. The Grand Wash, Meadview, the Red Lake Playa, etc just to the north.
I have to admit, it was impressive, and I saw it two months after the big one!
Over by Crookton, or Seligman?
@@TheAnarchitek between Kingman and Seligman. Sorry for the short responses. My grandma just passed away this morning. A lot of family coming and going. Heavy heart today.