Crater lake is an incredible proof of nature's unyielding power

We went to the Crater Lake on Saturday, on our trip down to California.

It was a bit of an adventure, after driving forever we were so close to the entrance of the lake and we thought we'd finally made it until we saw this 2-foot pile of unplowed snow on the road and realized the entrance was closed due to heavy snowfall from the day before. So we tried another entrance, until we discovered we didn't have enough petrol to return. So we went back all the way, to the diamond lake gas station, and decided we'd settle down with Diamond lake. Drove to a scenic overview for the lake and discovered yep it was closed too due to heavy snow. After having spent so much time trying to figure an entry to the lake, we figured we might as well go all-in, and drove toward the South entrance, the main one, a detour of potentially 1.5 hours for no good reason. And it worked! We saw the crater lake.

It is really mindblowing. It was a volcano 8000 years ago that blew its top and was filled by snowmelt. It's massive, humongous, almost unimaginably large. Makes one realize how massive the volcano must have been, and how awe-inspiring the power of nature is.

So freakin' beautiful. It was very very very cold, 2-3 feet of snow on the banks, and windy, so we didn't spend a whole lotta time in there, just took a few photos. Of course we had no chance to walk down to the lake due to the snow.

Incredible. I'm going to go there again, in the summer when there's no snow, and walk down to the lake.