in this video we're going to teach you what you need to know
about planning your trip to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon...
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today we're at Crater Lake National Park
in Oregon. If you're new to the channel, this is April--hi--and I'm Wayne, we do a video every
Thursday. So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey! we're sitting in line to get into
Crater Lake National Park we have our annual pass definitely worth getting 80 bucks a year
you can get into all the national parks all the national monuments for an entire 12 months they
also have a military one if you're active military or retired military you can get the pass for free
for life and then there's also the golden age pass it's called interagency military a private vehicle
is thirty dollars for seven days if you walk in it's only 15 bucks you can save yourself half of
motorcycles 25 bucks hey how you doing how are you doing good the uh east rim is it still closed
we looked on the website the bottom four miles up to Sun Notch are now open okay and that gives you
views of good day falls and then Sun Notch is a little mini half a mile walk up to the rim
we're doing the West Rim Scenic Drive--west whim scenic dwive--we'll also do the East
Rim most of the East Rim is still closed because we're here in actually we're here in June and
there's still snow on the ground and the East Rim driving loop most of it's still closed the snow's
been cleared though yeah they have some road clearing that the road fixing that they need to do
we're at about 7000 foot on this trail for you people that are not used to
high elevation especially exerting yourself highly suggest taking a aspirin first thing
in the morning and drink double the water that you normally do maybe not so many beers
i don't actually pay attention to any of these rules but--you can't put that in there Wayne--
this is just saying that winter shapes the landscape here storms from the Pacific drop
an annual average of 44 feet of snow leaving the terrain blanketed white for eight months of
the year snowmelt formed the pure waters of the lake over 7000 years ago and maintain it today
inside the lake basin cycles of freeze and fall slowly erode rocky cliffs and loose slopes
outside the lake basin abundant springs fed by snowmelt give rise to creeks that support forests
and wildflowers and provide habitats for birds and mammals it's amazing they say crater lake
is the purest water in the world they also say that it's the deepest lake in america the blue
changed color all we're on is just a different side i know it's crazy windy but the water
you can see so deep down into it do you have any idea what makes up the color of crater lake if you
do comment below we'd be really interested to know yeah when you're planning your trip to Crater Lake
National Park check nps.gov for closures and alerts a lot of stuff is closed even stuff
that we thought we could go to we just found out we can't do some of those trails what trailer
are we on we should probably wait till we're in the sun because it's called the Sun Notch Trail
and then we were in the shade oh wow look at this view and this is why it's called a national park
wow as you first come into the park relieve yourselves the Rim Village or something
and uh be mindful of where where restrooms are throughout the park the other thing that uh when
you're coming out west if you're not used to it always fill up your car if you're if you're
at a half a tank find a gas station fill up your car because you will run out of gas out here yes
there is some gas in a couple of neighboring towns but they're like 35 miles away
guys this is becoming a real problem there's so many people
that come to the national park they're not staying on the trails right but they just go they think
the reason it's a problem is we have millions of people that are coming to the national parks
and if everybody gets off the trail it just destroys the environment the land
it takes so long for the stuff to heal it's not used to all these people being there
yeah we're here June 22nd and we've still seen a little bit of snow not a whole lot but
the mosquitoes just came out of hibernation they're attacking
we got a little bit of bug spray on but it doesn't seem to be working very well
we're so early that a lot of the flowers haven't even bloomed yet you can see the
buds but they haven't bloomed super easy half mile trail pretty water cascading down
and there was some beautiful flowers not as many as what we were hoping but that's
okay still an amazing walk through the woods a massive eruption collapse 7700 years ago left a
deep basin in place of a 12000 foot Mount Mazama over the next three to four hundred years smaller
eruptions helped seal the floor allowing rain and snow melts to fill the basin and create creater-
create crater lake--say that five times fast--Wizard Island is a cinder cone formed during this time
as lava erupted into the air cooled quickly and fell as cinders a small crater rests on its summit
magma also erupted underwater forming smooth pillow lava a second similar volcano Merriam cone
hidden from view beneath the lake future eruptions may bring further change to this landscape
you were right to see that it has no top it's a cinder cone yeah it's a cinder cone crater width
of Wizard Island is 300 feet huh you wouldn't know it from looking at this and the crater depth
goes about 90 feet... We want to thank you guys for watching our video all the way to the end. If you
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