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We headed out to the Lava Cast Forest to check out the holes in the lava where trees once stood before they were buried and burned by the advancing hot rocks.
One of the lava casts. Just imagine when the lava came and burned out these trees!
Looking down one of the old tree holes.
The lava came from up that way.
Here’s a casting from a tree that was fallen over.
This area is really pretty. 
It’s pretty amazing where they bulldozed roads in around Newberry Crater. Even across these lava fields.
Keep on trucking across the fields of lava!
Some of the roads we tried going down were closed due to fallen trees. Much of this area doesn’t see traffic very often.
As it started getting later in the day, we found a nice little campsite off of a side road that was off of another side road in the middle of the lava fields.
Heather with the truck right before we started to setup our camp for the night.
On our way to Bend, we stopped off at Newberry Crater to take a look at the Big Obsidian Flow. This is literally a very large flow of obsidian inside the crater.
There are many beautiful rocks at the flow.
Looking out into the crater and onto one of the two major lakes.
This glass could be extremely sharp if one were to touch it incorrectly.
Vera amongst the flow.
Heather walking along the obsidian path.
A dark sky full of clouds above the obsidian.
A view of the flow.
Up near the top of the of the path with Heather in the picture.
Absolutely gorgeous.
This is such an amazing place.
Heather posing with the snow that covered part of the trail.
The edge of the lava flow.
While trying to cross the snow, a guy in another group sunk up to his hips. I was standing by to offer assistance but he was able to free himself after much work. It was pretty lucky. The guy nearly broke his leg.
I helped Heather cross the snow safely.
