TIM McLENEGAN

Oregon Eclipse 2017

  1. Mt. Shasta through the haze of several wildfires.
  2. Yessica’s first time in Oregon!
  3. Our campsite at Crater Lake was awesome. It was right next to a small creek.
  4. The Phantom Ship has some of the oldest rock in Crater Lake.
  5. The Phantom Ship.
  7. Vidae Falls in Crater Lake National Park.
  8. Vidae Falls in Crater Lake National Park.
  9. Together at Crater Lake.
  11. Excited for the snow on the Garfield Peak trail.
  12. View of Crater Lake from Garfield Peak.
  13. We saw a couple of marmots whie hiking back down.
  15. The Pinnacles in Crater Lake are old fumaroles whose vents have been exposed when the hillside around them has eroded away.
  17. The Pinnacles.
  18. Oregon chipmunks are very adorable.
  19. Crater Lake as seen from the Cloudcap overlook.
  21. The water in Crater Lake really is an impossible shade of blue.
  22. North and Middle Sister as seen from McKenzie Pass.
  23. Mt. Jefferson peeks out from behind the wildfire haze at McKenzie Pass.
  24. Yessica says hello from her mountaintop castle.
  26. A chipmunk on lava.
  29. Yessica and some large lava rocks at the McKenzie Pass.
  31. South Falls: the first of the ten waterfalls on the Trail of Ten Falls in Silver Falls State Park.
  32. South Falls.
  33. Looking up from behind South Falls.
  34. Inside the large cave behind South Falls.
  35. Inside a small cave inside the large cave behind South Falls.
  36. Lower South Falls in Silver Falls State Park.
  37. Looking down from behind Lower South Falls.
  38. Behind Lower South Falls.
  40. We like how green the forests in the northwest are.
  41. We like how green the forests in the northwest are.
  42. Looking at Middle North Falls.
  43. Looking up from behind Middle North Falls.
  44. Middle North Falls.
  45. In the cave behind Middle North Falls.
  46. Middle North Falls.
  47. There was lots of moss on the trees in the forst here.
  48. Walking through the very green forest.
  49. North Falls.
  50. Multnomah Falls.
  51. Our campsite at Paradise Creek near Mt, St. Helens.
  52. This mountain is missing its top.
  54. Looking at some colorful lava inside the 2-mile-long Ape Cave.
  55. Frozen oozing lava.
  56. Inside a small side passage in Ape Cave.
  57. On a shelf in a large passageway in Ape Cave.
  58. Climbing up a frozen lava waterfall.
  59. Professional caver at work.
  60. Inside Ape Cave.
  61. Next to a large boulder in Ape Cave.
  62. A skylight near the end of the upper Ape Cave.
  64. Natural light!
  65. Climbing out of Ape Cave.
  66. The waterfall that fills the small June Lake near Mt. St. Helens.
  67. June Lake near Mt. St. Helens.
  68. Dave pointing out some salamanders to Bennett.
  69. One of a few salamanders we saw swimming around in the lake.
  70. Mt. St. Helens.
  71. Curly Creek Falls is hidden behind two natural bridges.
  72. The Curly Creek Falls trail at sunset.
  73. The woods at sunset.
  74. Mt. St. Helens from the McClellan Overlook.
  75. Mt. Hood.
  76. Frazier Creek Campground in the Ochoco National Forest. Our home for 5 days. We saw the eclipse from here and no one else stayed here.
  77. Inside Crack in the Ground.
  78. Crack in the Ground is a two-mile-long crack in the ground that's very narrow and gets up to 70 feet deep.
  79. Cool weathered rocks.
  80. Rock curtains.
  81. Crack in the Ground.
  82. Getting into one of the sections requires a bit of a squeeze.
  83. Looking down the Crack.
  85. One of the taller sections of Crack in the Ground.
  86. Inside Crack in the Ground.
  88. Looking up out of Crack in the Ground.
  89. Climbing out of one of the sections of Crack in the Ground.
  90. Crack in the Ground.
  91. Crack in the Ground.
  92. Together at Crack in the Ground.
  93. Together at Crack in the Ground.
  94. All the fires in Oregon made for very red sunsets.
  96. The sun is not supposed to be this color.
  97. Some weathered basalt columns on the side of the road.
  98. Some weathered basalt columns on the side of the road.
  99. I decided to climb to the top.
  102. Nice sunset at our home in the woods.
  103. Yessica in one of the casts in the Lava Cast Forest. Flowing lava hit trees in the forest and the steam from the trees flash-froze the lava. When the trees later rotted away, the hole in the lava stayed behind.
  104. Inside a tree-hole in the lava.
  105. A lava cast.
  106. One of the larger lava casts.
  107. The trees in the lava field have very twisted trunks.
  108. Yessica and the roots of a large juniper tree.
  109. Looking inside one of the casts of a fallen tree.
  110. Yessica uses her immense strength to pick up some pumice.
  111. Yessica and a large piece of obsidian in the Big Obsidian Flow in Newberry National Volcanic Monument.
  112. Cool patterns in some rock in the Big Obsidian Flow.
  113. Yessica effortlessly lifts yet another large lava rock.
  114. All the trees in the flow were somehow growing straight out of the rock. This tree was one of the larger ones and I still have no idea how it was growing at all. It’s just coming right out of the rock!