Tuesday 28 August 2018

The temperature this morning is a chilly 7.5 degrees Celsius. O fires up the stove for some coffee and we bake a Russian coffee cake which we enjoy with orange marmalade. After breakfast we proceed to the Loomis Museum which is very near our campsite. Benjamin Franklin Loomis was an amateur photographer who captured the 1915 eruption of Lassen on film. His photos and the eruption were instrumental in getting this area declared a national park. The park itself is named after Peter Lassen, an early pioneer who made efforts to attract emigrants to the area. To the Native American tribes in this area Lassen Peak is known as Kohm-Yah-Mah-nee or Snow Mountain.

After our visit to the museum O and I drive the scenic road through the park passing views of Lassen Peak, Brokeoff Mountain, Helen and Emerald Lake and the Sulphur Works. We finish our traverse of the park at the Kohm-Yah-Mah-nee visitor center and then retrace our route back to camp.