Into Oregon and Crater Lake revisited

Thursday.After a quiet night at Etna we mounted up and have arrived at Collier Memorial SP. This is a SP we have stayed in before  (Oct 2011) and is very pretty. We are still with Roy and Anne. To get there we had to pass the amazing Mount Shasta. We entered Oregon on route 97 through a town called Dorris - what a great name, I could write a book called 'A Town Like Dorris'

We are located only about 30 miles from Crater Lake, which we also visited last time we were here.
We had changed our planned route because of the wet weather on the coast, now we were worried about being in the cold and snow. Night time temperatures were getting down to 22 deg.
Crater Lake is 3000 ft higher and most of it is closed until June! However one road is kept open, so we decided that on Saturday if the weather was good enough we would all drive up and have a look.
Saturday dawned bright and crisp, so we all bundled into the the Chevy and drove up to Crater Lake. No jawdropping view as we drove into the Rim Are - there was too much snow. This time we had to park and climb through the snow to get to the view. This was a very different view to the last time as it was now covered in deep snow, though the lake was not frozen. It looked just as beautiful. We had a good play in the snow, then a cup of hot soup in the cafe, then drove back down to Collier SP. A gret day out.