I started the day at Ponderosa Flat. I ended the day at Cave Campground.

Here is a short description of the day:

scenic but tiring jaunt over Mt Lassen
My camping friends are up and packed and basically ready to go at 9AM. Really?! To Chester, breakfast, bye to friends, back on 89 for the ole Lassen Park tour. Beautiful as always, but too hot and cloudless, and I’m too burnt.

Here is a short description of the evening:

First time I've been here in season, so first time I've stayed in the Big Boys Loop. It's always been closed for the winter.

So this is the first time I've experienced the bathrooms - they are nice! Porcelain sinks, actual knobs for the water - old school.

A couple of areas are still taped off for storm damage, but most of it is open, and surprisingly crowded for the first day of off-season.

This is Monday, effing night, don't you people have to be at work somewhere tomorrow?

Now that it is dark, I find that each bathroom has a super bright light, which is a problem if you value the dark like I do and happen to have pointed yourself in the wrong direction.

Story for today: Back and Forth in NorCal.