Bend,Sisters and Redmond

We toured over through the above listed towns yesterday. They are just on the east side of the Cascades and so enjoy a 300 plus sunny days a year climate. Bend has about 75,000 people and looks to be a humming economy. Sister's looks like a small but nice tourist place and Redmond is more a country town. On the way we stopped at Sahalie Falls which was quite a scene. A rushing mountain stream forced through a narrow opening and down 120'. The spray was expansive and the rapids below just gorgeous. Just past that we ran into lava flows from eruptions about 3,000 years ago. Some have trees and plant growth covering it, but some looks like it cooled yesterday. There are two different types of lava named by Hawaians. One means rough and craggy and the other is smooth. This was the rough and craggy. Goes on for miles. We then stopped at Lava Butte National monument which was more and wider of the same. Today we head down to Crater Lake.