Hi guys, I just came from Labor Day Camping trip! You can see the full story on my Sway!

At the last Saturday of August we went to Crater Lake National Park taking an advantage of cooler weather. To our surprise, the north entrance payment booth was closed with no one inside. We decided to check with park rangers what is going one. They told us we can pay on the way back after visiting the park or proceed to the south entrance and pay there. We went to the south entrance booth and payed there, since we picked easy Godfrey Glen Trail to explore, and this trail located not far away from the south entrance. The trail was very nice, featuring deep canyon with loud but invisible creek at the bottom and a lot of volcanic fumaroles:

Hello my friends,

It looks to me I figured it out

I is not working!!

test record

Guess what? I subscribed for Alltrails app and immediately found a lot of nice trails in our new neighborhood. This is one of them - Wild Iris Loop Trail

Summer can be hot here in Oregon. But fortunately, we have Pacific Ocean and we can go there to chill during hot summer days. The temperature difference can be 20F between Eugene and Oregon Coast. Cape Perpetua is very special place which attracts a lot of people. Most of the crowd is on the shores, and forest hiking trails are pretty much peopleless. I made my hot luch using Mountain House dehydrated meal and of course I used fresh water from Cummins Creek!

Just went hiking in Alsea Falls area this Sunday!

I was filtering water with Sawyer Squeeze filtration system and prepairing my lunch using Jetboil MiniMo cooking system. The water from Sweek creek was surprizingly delicious!

Many Russians celebrte Old New Year today!

Prime Rib

I tried a new recipe tonight - Korean seafood pancakes! It was easy to make and so delicious!

My long time dream was to camp on Hebo Lake at the end of the season (October). I hoped to see less people, less flys and bugs. This is exactly what I faced one week ago: I was even able to camp on my favorite campsite, very privat, surrounded by bushes and tall trees. THis place has it's own magic and I like to re-visit it. Nice hike from campground to the summit, where long time ago military radar was installed. Now the placed is restored back to the nature and re-plantet. Almost no traces of military presence. This time I wanted to hike from Hebo summit to two other small lakes - North Lake and South Lake. Click here for images, videos and comments!

Finally, I decided to re-visit Newberry Caldera and camp there for a few days. I red in Register Guard it is very difficult to find any camping spot this summer because of COVID situation. However I said "Let it be" to myself and packed my camping staff. I was sooooo lucky - I took the last campsite available in Cinder Hill campground. It was overflooded with people, but most of the crowd was on the lake shores, not on the hiking trails!

Just learned recently I can use Power Automated from Microsoft to sent email to multiple addresses after publishing new blog. Looks like very cool feature!

I was watching some news story on Russian TV about Research Center "Vector" which is, by the way, located near "Novosibirks Akadem Gorodok" The young scientist is COVID-19 vaccie developer who is villing to test new vaccine on himself. Look on the image station's screen - they use Molecular Probes dye for their research! (see sec 40 of this video, look at top left corner)