Scenic McKenzie
Pass Highway
The
Scenic McKenzie Pass highway is closed to motor vehicles in the early summer.
Ideal for bicycle touring and hiking.
North
and Middle Sister from the summit of the pass.
Lava
Lake.
Andesite
lava rock.
Mount
Washington .
North
Mathieu Lake.
Pinedrops
- Pterospora andromedea - growing in Ponderosa forest. Has trace amounts
of chlorophyll but lives as a mycorrhizal heterotroph in association with Rhizopogon
fungi. Heath family.
Biking
over the pass.
North
Sister from South Mathieu Lake.
Dee
Wright Observatory.
Hiking
through the lava flows.
North
Mathieu Lake.
North
Sister.
North
Mathieu Lake.
Davidson's Penstemon - Penstemon davidsonii. Figwort
family.
Dee
Wright Observatory at the top of the pass.
North
Mathieu Lake.
Bronze
azimuth compass at Dee Wright Observatory.
Looking
south.
Coasting
down the pass.
