Lassen Volcanic National Park, Pt. 3

The first day was a nice easy hike. Most of it was through alpine terrain. The trail, although well maintained, was incredibly dusty. That wasn't much of surprise but at the end of each day, the skin of my legs were caked in dust despite wearing pants.


Many of the pine trees had crazy neon greenish yellow lichen (it wasn't moss) growing all over them.


It's wolf lichen, which is mildly poisonous. Don't eat it.


Rainbow Lake. This is where we set up camp for the day and we had the whole lake to ourselves. After a long summer day of hiking, there is nothing better than jumping into a cold mountain lake.


The lake supposedly had rainbow trout in them so Eric decided to give it a go.


He fished around the whole lake and caught nothing. We decided the lake had no trout. Yeah, that's the ticket.


Really the only thing we found in the water were garter snakes.