I am indeed lucky to be here in the PNW for a good long time now.
My Dad took a job at the Boeing factory in Everett helping build the 1st 747's back in 1967.
Almost a year later he came back to Wichita packed up the family in a brand spankin new '68 Pontiac Catalina station wagon pulling a boat he had saved from the dump and rebuilt in the garage.
That was my first cross-country adventure. Saw all kinds of stuff on the way... Dad was not a point A the point B kind of guy. I got my love of adventure, travel and being outside from him.
Steve, the obsidian is from the Ochoco National forest area smack dab in the middle of Oregon- East of Sisters and Bend within the Newberry Caldera.
Lot's to see and do with lake Paulina, Paulina Falls and Paulina peak at 7984' and "the big obsidian flow" all doable in a day or two.
The big obsidian flow is surreal, mixed with the jet black glass is pumice, I'd think the geologic processes that form one would be way different than the other.
Nope, wrong again.
Boulders of solid obsidian all over the hill side... don't fall down, the boulders are not friendly.
That's just part of a labyrinth of obsidian and pumice stretching over miles of territory
Fascinating area, on top of a slumbering volcano
