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This view is form just below the Emigrant Trail. The green area just below fill's with over two feet of water in the early season from the snow melt, forcing you to go around. Mt Lassen is in view to the right.

When the trail leaves Snag Lake it travels alongside the lava flow toward Cinder Cone. The volcanic ash doesn't make it easy. It also doesn't help that the park has done little in the way of trail maintenance. There were numerous dead trees down across the trail from Snag lake to Cinder Cone, about 30 in all. I only saw one tree on the whole hike that looked like it had been cut recently. I almost impaled myself on one tree while trying to cross it. That tree has probably been there for years. I can only hope that with the increase in fees that they will finally correct this situation, but I doubt it. Instead they will probably spend that money on areas next to the road.

Just to give you an idea of the scale of this area, there are two people just about dead center of this picture to the right of the tree. They are headed toward Rainbow Lake.

And for those of you that mention that I am never in any of the pictures, here I am. I had to ask the two people in the picture above to take it for me.