The Mckenzie river near where I stayed last night

Just over the fence from my bike is a bicyclist campground. They have many of these along the Mckenzie hwy as it is a very popular bicycle route. Cranky, you been here?

Like Ed and Carl, I like to be able to see my bike when I stop to eat.

I love it when a "plan comes together"

These are lava flows. The whole Cascade range is vocanic and they go on for miles. I walked out on this one to take the pic. It is very rugged and hard to walk on. I can't believe that when I was in my early twenties I used to hike a 1/4 mile every day to get to my favorite fishing hole on the deschutes and thought it was nothing. I hate geting old!

The Dee Wright observation post is built entirely of lava and has two identifiers on top pointing to all of the different landmarks.

Again, in my twenties I climbed the left one and signed my name in the Mazama's book at the top. I thought it was a pretty hard climb back then. It makes me hurt just thinking about it now.<G>

These are the two mountains on the right of the previous picture taken from a much different angle.

I don't know exactly how deep these flows are, but I have been in some lava tubes (caves) that have rooms at least 30' tall. Always full of bats.

Stopped by to hear an old friend preach

Dennis, a friend of mine since my early twenties is re-building this scorpion helecopter

He built this shop before I left Bend. Someday he plans to finish it.<G>

I had a great visit with my ex Mother in Law and Sister in Law. They never seem like ex's to me, still love them just the same.