Sunday, July 13, 2014

Weed?

Yup, Weed, California. That's where we're spending the night. It's not as bad as it sounds. We have a view of Mount Shasta (at least when the truck next to us moves). We walked along the road into town and came to this welcome sign,


We're parked in a truck and RV lot next to a McDonald's for the night.


Have to admit it's not an unobstructed view.


To the south is an imposing group of peaks called Black Butte, which Wikipedia describes this way.
Black Butte is a cluster of overlapping dacite lava domes in a butte,[2] a parasitic satellite cone of Mount Shasta.[5] It is located directly adjacent to Interstate 5 at milepost 742 between the city of Mount Shasta and Weed, California. The highway crosses a 3,912 ft (1,192 m) pass, Black Butte Summit, at the western base of the lava domes. The lava domes were extruded at the foot of the cone of Shastina following the period of its major eruptions about 9,000–10,000 years ago.[2]
Tomorrow we'll be moving on to Sutherlin, OR, stopping to shop along the way.

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