September Trip to Oregon's Cascades

Mt Jefferson (10,497') from Olallie Lake

This post is out of sequence. We actually made this trip to the Olallie Lakes region of Oregon's Cascades over Labor Day weekend. This is classic "High Cascades Province" stuff - a high plateau (5,000 - 6,000') dotted with small lakes and a few volcanic peaks rising above it all. Forest is largely lodgepole pine with some true firs mixed in. Climbed Olallie Butte - just to the east of Olallie Lake and 7,215'). Nice view of the lakes basin - though obscured by heavy forest fire smoke. This trip represented one of the last significant areas of Oregon's Cascades that I had yet to visit. There are some wilderness areas that I need to get into, but other than that I've explored much of it - at least in a cursory sense. The Washington Cascades are much more interesting and inaccessible - a lifetime of exploration remains up there.