{"id":114,"date":"2013-11-17T19:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tulelake.server293.com\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2015-08-01T02:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T02:59:58","slug":"medicine-lake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/destinations\/medicine-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Atop North American’s Largest Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"medicine<\/a>
\nThe largest Volcano in California: 24 miles in diameter, 150 miles in circumference<\/strong>
\n750 square miles of landscape is covered with lava flows and forest.<\/p>\n

\"Medicine<\/a>
\nA place to be high above Tule Lake Basin<\/strong>
\nMedicine Lake offers boating, swimming, water-skiing,fishing, hiking,
\n camping, and picnicking.<\/p>\n

\"Medicine<\/a>
\nAtop a huge volcano<\/strong>
\nAt 6,700 feet, near the top of the volcano, Medicine Lake, near the top of the
\n volcano, partially fills a caldera to a depth of 150 feet or more. 100,000 years
\n ago Medicine Lake Volcano had a series of eruptions that undermined the center
\n of the mountain. The caldera is 4.5 miles wide and 6.5 miles long.
\n In the bottom right hand corner one can see the Medicine Lake Glass Flow,
\n estimated to be 1,100 years old, is a mile north of Medicine Lake. This flow
\n covers 570 acres with dull grey stoney-grey dacite 50 to 150 feet deep.<\/p>\n

\"Medicine<\/a>
\nA mountain afternoon with friends<\/strong>
\nThree couples from nearby Fall River Mills enjoy their Medicine Lake campsite. Hemlock, Headquarters, Hogue and Medicine campgrounds located on Medicine Lake charge a
\n fee for overnight camping. The 75 campsites are on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n

\"Medicine<\/a>
\nA time to be one with all<\/strong>
\nA quiet mid-week day at Medicine Lake is a moment to share with family
\nand friends. Cool-crisp air high above the summer heat haze and below
\npatchy clouds makes for an invigorating outing.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>
\nThe circle of life continues<\/strong>
\nOspreys are designed to catch fish. In this bird\u2019s grip, two toes facing forward,
\n two facing backwards, is a fish. They have a wingspan of 54 to 72 inches.<\/p>\n

\"boy<\/a>
\nMedicine Lake is home to rainbow and brook trout<\/strong>
\n Largemouth bass\u2028fishing is slow when the water temperature is at 50 degrees,
\n but Crappie fishing\u2028 is sometimes at its best with the water temperature down
\n this low. \u2028Whether you\u2019re spinning, fly fishing or bait casting your chances of
\n getting a bite here are good. Just ask this boy who is having the time of his life.<\/p>\n

\"little<\/a>
\nSpending time with one of the locals<\/strong>
\nLooking west from Little Mt. Hoffman is Mt. Shasta.
\nA ground squirrel checks out the camera-person.<\/p>\n

\"little<\/a>
\nAnd now for a little geological history<\/strong>
\nLittle Glass Mountain is the most recent major volcanic activity in the area.
\n 1,100 years ago eruptions spread white pumice for miles around.
\n Then came flows of black volcanic glass, called obsidian.
\n The date of Little Glass Mountain\u2019s eruption is questionable.
\n Native Americans did not use this obsidian for arrowheads and spear points
\n because the extensive white intrusions of crytaubolite make it flake erratically.
\n The larger Glass Mountain, east of Medicine Lake,is 800 years old.
\nSource: U.S.F.S<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Glass<\/a>
\nWhere fields of obsidian shine in the sun like black diamonds<\/strong>
\nMore than a million years of volcanic activity, some as recent as 800 years ago, have
\n produced glass flows, pumice deposits lava tubes and cinder cones throughout
\n Medicine lake Highlands. This viewpoint is from Loveness Road east of Malin
\n along the California – Oregon border. <\/p>\n

\"Medicine<\/a>
\nTake a moment and take it all in<\/strong>
\nMedicine Lake, elevation 6,700 feet, is 408 acres with a lake volume
\n of 10,860 acre-feet. Its average depth is 24 feet. Its greatest depth is 152 feet.
\n Geologists believe Medicine Lake lies on a bed of impermeable clay
\n deposited by glaciers that covered the caldera rim and filled the basin
\n with ice as recently as 15,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Medicine<\/a>
\nA getaway for meetings in nature<\/strong>
\nOre-Cal Resource Conservation & Development Area Council held a full council
\n meeting at Medicine Lake\u2019s day use area. After lunch, provided by Hospitality Dinner
\n House, a tour of the Calpine Geothermal Development Project was hosted by Calpine
\n officials and project manager.<\/p>\n

\"geothermal<\/a>
\nFire in its belly<\/strong>
\nCalpine\u2018s tour started at Telephone Flats, 1.5 miles east of Medicine Lake.
\n Here, the existing well reaches water temperatures of 500 degrees at a
\ndepth of 4,000 ft. This is a large volcano with fire in its belly.<\/p>\n

\"views<\/a>
\n360 degree views of rural America <\/strong>
\nLittle Mt. Hoffman vistas. The lookout is rentable on a permit basis.
\n Distance and Klamath Lake evaporation obscures this view in the
\n upper right corner looking towards Crater Lake.<\/p>\n

\"Medicine<\/a>
\nA view back, and forward, in time<\/strong>
\nThe Medicine Lake Highlands area exceeds 200 square miles in Modoc and
\n Siskiyou counties and takes in portions of three national Forests – the Modoc,
\n Klamath, and Shasta\/Trinity. Lava Beds National Monument occupies 46,000 acres
\n on the north east corner of Medicine Lake Volcano. Tule Lake National Wildlife
\n Refuge is 39,116 acres of mostly open water and \u00a0crop land. Approximately
\n 17,000 acres are leased by potato, onion, horse radish, alfalfa,\u2028and cereal grains
\n within the Public Lease Lands\u00a0program administered by the \u2028U.S Bureau
\n of Reclamation. This view is from the Peninsula, aka Castle Rock.<\/p>\n

\"mt.<\/a>
\nAll things volcanic<\/strong>
\nThis commanding view of the Medicine Lake Highlands, 35 miles southwest of Tulelake,
\nis from atop Petroglyph Point. From this perspective one understands that Medicine
\nLake Volcano is indeed 48 times the mass of magnificent Mt. Shasta.<\/p>\n

\"Medicine<\/a>
\nThis is what it is all about<\/strong>
\nCaptain and his brave crew circumnavigate Medicine Lake in search of treasure.<\/p>\n

\"Mt.<\/a>
\nA winter volcanic wonderland<\/strong>
\n\ufffcIn winter the roads are not plowed and provide hundreds of miles of groomed
\n snowmobile routes and cross country ski trails. Here, Rob Crawford and Lee Mckoen,
\n Tule Lake farmers, take it all in.<\/p>\n

\"Tule<\/a>
\nA view from the Volcanic Legacy All-American Road<\/strong>
\nOne is crossing the Tule Lake Basin on East-West road. Most of these geese on
\n Tule Lake in the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge have recently arrived from
\n the Central Valley in California. The early spring snow field is Glass Mountain in
\n the Modoc National Forest on Medicine Lake Highlands. A place so faraway from
\n modern times but not that far away in time if the roads are open.<\/p>\n

The photos on this page were taken between 2001 and 2008.
\n\u00a92015 Anders Tomlinson, all rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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