OK, one last photo from Trillium Lake.  This was taken yesterday:

Today we packed up our RV and headed out.  Here’s where we’ve been since Tuesday:

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We headed South on 26 towards Bend but took a little detour to Little Crater Lake while still in the Mt. Hood National Forest:

The “lake” is extraordinarily clear and deep, which is why it’s named after the real Crater Lake:

I grabbed our waterproof action camera and did some underwater videos:

Here’s a frame grab from the video.  It’s pretty deep:

The lake has its own campground, which is closed for the season, but still open for use, albeit with no water or toilets available for use.

We continued South and stopped at the dump station at the Madras fairgrounds.  In terms of fresh and waste water, the most “expensive” operation is showering, so we did a DFSFD – dump, fill, shower, fill, dump.  This left us all clean and with full fresh water tanks and empty waste tanks.  Brilliant, if I do say so myself.

We stopped at the Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint.  It’s a 300 foot drop from the canyon edge.

Many dogs have died here:

Looking over the edge was a sickening experience.  Here I’m looking east towards the old bridge, now for pedestrians only, and the mostly obscured new highway bridge:

Looking west towards the railroad bridge:

A short way south of the viewpoint is Smith Rock State Park, one of the premier rock climbing locations in the US.

We watched the climbers across the river:

We spent the night at the Walmart in Bend, Oregon.  Thanks to a town ordinance no doubt championed by local campgrounds to boost profits, Walmart is posted “no overnight parking”, but in conversation Walmart makes it clear that it’s a town ordinance and that the manager doesn’t come out until 9am to look around and call the tow trucks. As such we will hit the road by 8am.

  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.