Walk in the USA

I decided, whilst we were on holiday here in Oregon again, that I had to finally go up Table Rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_and_Lower_Table_Rock), a prominent feature in the Rogue Valley. I'd never got round to doing it before but today was the day - and Jo joined me as we set off early morning before the heat got up too much.

There's two of these large volcanic plateaus - Upper and Lower Table Rock. They're not hugely high, but there's some nice trails leading to the large flat tops and they were worth a walk. My Adidas app let me down - all it recorded was elapsed time (almost 2 hours) - it doesn't seem to like USA for some reason.

Here's some photos anyway - first the usual wildlife warning signs:

On the way up and then on the plateau at the top:

The lower bit of the sky that isn't blue in the photo immediately above is actually smoke from the forest fires that were set off by the dry lightning strikes - some 2,500 of them on Wednesday alone - just south east of here. There is a camp nearby where hundreds of firemen from all over the state have been staying, in readiness to snuff out any threats to lives or properties.

We walked across this huge lava field to the other side to get a look at Lower Table Rock - our next planned walk:

Here's some of the fused lava rock on the way down:

Back at the start again: