Sunday morning (Sept. 18) we awoke to find ice on the ground around our trailer and on our truck. Our furnace quickly warmed up the trailer for us. It had gotten quite cold during the night, but also, the sky had cleared completely so we had a fine sunny day to continue our travel north to the Cascade Lakes area. We set up camp for 2 nights at the La Pine State Park (Nos 4 and 9 on the map) and went in the afternoon to visit the Newberry Lava Beds National Monument. (These are in the Deschutes National Forest area on the map). There we saw two more volcanic crater lakes, went to a view point at 8000 ft elevation from where we could see much of the state of Oregon and parts of Washington and California. We could see Mt. Shasta in California and Mt. Adam in Washington. One of the highlights of the afternoon was walking through the obsidian flow left from past volcanic activity. The flow seemed to be about 100 feet deep and was all large chunks of black obsidian (silica glass).

Monday morning we packed a picnic lunch and headed out to sightsee along the Cascade Lakes scenic area (route through 4,5,6,7,8 and 9 on the map), which is an area south and west of Bend, OR. We again saw more "crater lakes" and some beautiful views of the cascade mountain range. We had lunch by the side of a large lake (reservoir, actually) where we hoped to see some active Osprey. No such luck, but is a beautiful spot for lunch. We also later found another obsidian flow, and this one also had some ancient Indian paintings and petroglyphs that we could view. We stopped in Bend for shopping and gas before returning to La Pine to our trailer.