Mount Lassen NP

1. Arrive At Lassen

We took Paul's Mother, Myra Webster on a trip to Mount Lassen. Because of her age we planned a trip with not too much walking. Here we have paused with our 14 foot travel trailer at the Devasted Area on our way to the Manzanita Lake Campground. The Devastated Area most visibly illustrates the slow but relentless return of Earth's green mantle of plants, but many areas of the park are important post-volcanism plant succession sites. The Devastated Area evidences the combined mud flow and gas blast destruction typical of many volcanic eruptions in the Cascades. Both the Devastated Area, denuded by volcanic activity, and the Chaos Jumbles, denuded by an air-cushion avalanche, are recovering directly to conifers without preparation by herbaceous plants.