Lava

Lava Beds National Monument. This is a landscape truly forged by Vulcan. Dad and I spent Labor Day weekend exploring this desolate and beautiful part of northeastern California. We even did a backcountry drive through the region of the Medicine Lake Volcano (the largest in the Cascades even though it has no cone). I'm always amazed to think about the fact that we spend our entire lives floating on top of a bunch of magma.

That's Schonchin Butte in the background of the photo.