Yes, the sulfur pools! - You drive by them on the way in. You can smell sulfur about halfway up the mountain, too. A lot stronger than I expected - I want to return to see more of the park. There is an area near the Lassen trailhead called "Bumpass Hell". Probably need to get a t-shirt of that, at the gift shop.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : I've only visited Mt. Lassen once when I was a kid during a family vacation. I remember the boiling sulfur pools by the side of the paths. But then I've lived in this town 14 years and only recently drove through the picturesque town of Crockett just a few miles away. On 08/29/2014 03:58 PM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: It was amazing, and once is enough. That is a tough one, in the thin air. I did feel nauseated above 10,000 feet, and that lasted a little while. Anything over a snail's pace during the climb is impossible. Did the R/T in 3:15, even so. Started at 7:15-ish, with about twenty people on the trail, total. The final push is up very loose rock, with a bad fall a step away. The surprise was how cold it was - 50 or so - numb finger tips from that, and the altitude. Didn't need climbing gear, except a hiking stick, and good shoes.
