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We went over to Benham Falls to check out one of the namesake cascades on the Deschutes river. I would not want to go down this in a canoe!
These falls are incredibly loud to stand next to.
It’s well worth the walk along the old railroad bed to visit these falls.
We tried going up Newberry Crater Road (NF-21) to go over the crater’s rim and onward toward China Hat but the snow started getting deeper as we went uphill so we decided to turn around since we were alone and I don’t have a Pul Pal or similar recovery gear yet.
You wouldn’t think there would be so much snow in mid June but up toward the top (we didn’t get photos up there), we were pushing through a couple feet of snow.
We stopped off at East Lake where we saw a bear running through the campground. It was a young cub so the mom must have been around there somewhere, too.
In the summer there are lots of people running boats on this lake but in the late spring we only saw one or two people out.
