Hopefully - this is the last set of pictures! These were all taken on the way down. Not long after getting started, we started getting a few clouds in. Since Freida had a bad dream about being on the top of the mountain in a thunderstorm (in Freida's dream, Mom wouldn't listen to her and get out of the lightning!), we were very happy to see that it wasn't really going to start lightening all around us!

Since it was just a bit easier to breathe going down hill, I did take a couple of pictures of something besides the view. The trees are all gnarled from the snow and wind.

We caught up with Mom and Jeff just above the parking lot, and AJ came back up from the parking lot, so we all finished together!

Good thing the Rav is an SUV - the back is just the right height to sit on! Mom decided we could just have our picnic right there, but we convinced her she really could walk all the way over to the picnic tables. She made fried chicken and potato and three bean salad for us! Yum! (Ralph had asked that I bring him back a crumb or two of her fried chicken, and that was just about all that was left!) The clouds that had been build all morning finally started hailing and raining on us, so we cut the picnic just a bit short. We still ate all the chicken, we just didn't hang out to talk! Mom and Freida got a "I climbed a volcano" t-shirt, and I stopped at the museum at Manzanita Lake and got a Mt. Lassen 'badge' to go on her walking stick. (now, to remember to take it to her when I go!)