Friday 24.7. (Lassen)

Saying goodbye to Moki and her family we head north to the Lassen National Park. To the borders of the park we got around the noon, it is quite nice weather and we start off the 2 trails -- Bumpass Hell, which is a volcanic area very similar to Yellowstone, and a walk toward the lakes in the central part of the park, where it was possible to swim (swimming in the clear waters in the wilds is extremely appreciated as there are almost never showers in the national parks). We arrived into the camp pretty early and so we went to a little longer walk around the Manzanita Lake, where the volcanic cone Lassen Peak is nicely visible. The camp by the lake here in Lassen is far better than in Yosemite, where the individual sites were very close to each other and where it was very noisy. Here it is calm and peaceful -- moreover, no bloodsucking moskytos.