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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. 
We stopped by the Lava Butte Cinder Cone to check out the fire lookout on our way to Newberry Crater for our birthday weekend. It’s been several years since we were up here and the view is as good as ever.
The fire lookout was occupied upstairs with the Forest Service lookout but downstairs we were able to check everything out and get some interpretation with another employee who pointed out some cool features of the surrounding mountains.
We have our faithful Albino Rhino on this trip!
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.