Just south of the Oregon/California border is the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. You'll remember my first visit there from back in July but, needless to say, with the mountains and curvy highways and the multitude of 18-wheelers whose drivers know the road like the back of their hands, driving it in the middle of January is a bit more questionable. I wanted to make it back to Oregon before it got dark so I passed up a lot of 'Stop The Car!' moments. But there was one particular spot, right along the highway, that I just couldn't drive right through.
It's Shasta Lake, and it's breathtaking.
In a good year, the water level rises all the way to the treeline but when I arrived, it was remarkably low. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the green water contrasted with the red shores and the blue sky and I was mesmerized. Stop The Car indeed!
I spent a good half hour or more driving around this section of the lake. I ran into two lovely park rangers who wouldn't let me pass, but were more than accommodating when I asked if I could walk up and down the road with my camera to take more pictures. I would have stayed longer, but I knew my timing was already close, so with one more wide-angle shot, I got back in the car and continued on my mission north and away from this spectacular bit of nature.
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