Scenes from the drive: Northern California & Southern Oregon
I don’t do much driving around here because I’d much rather spend my time looking out the window, at things other than the road. On our drive back to Portland from northern California, there were some magnificent views of Mt. Shasta from I-5.
I love the lenticular clouds that form above the mountain peaks here. We didn’t have those on the east coast. The clouds on top of Shasta were in constant motion; the mountain looked like a bubbling cauldron. It was spectacular.
Next to Mt. Shasta is Black Butte. Here’s a family photo of the two of them.
Black Butte is much more impressive when you don’t compare it to a 14,179′ tall mountain.
From this point on I-5, the weather was clear enough that we could faintly see Mt. McLoughlin in Oregon, but I couldn’t capture it on my cheap digital camera. Of course the clouds rolled in as we got closer, so I wasn’t able to get a good shot of any of the Oregon Cascades on this drive, but there was one more photo-op once we crossed state lines. This is Table Rock just outside of Ashland, Oregon.
I took all of these pictures from our moving Subaru on Interstate 5, on January 11, 2010.
