Newberry Caldera North Rim Loop Hike 9/26/2021

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Newberry Caldera North Rim Loop Hike 9/26/2021

Post by ioscode » October 19th, 2021, 9:17 pm

I recently did a counter part to this South Rim Loop

Heading up the north rim first provided great views of Paulina Lake and the Big Obsidian Flow
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Coming down the rim towards East lake, the trail quite regularly for a long time had big ant hills by the trail at regular intervals. I thought of posting them as weird cairns, but not sure they qualify :P
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On the south side of the lakes, the Newberry Crater Trail is a bit dull, spending a lot of time following under some power lines :roll: However, the cool part of it is hiking next to the East Lake Lava Flows and into the Big Obsidian Flow
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This loop wraps up by following along the Paulina Lakeshore trail for a while, which is really nice with the sun coming down at the end of a long day.
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Another cool thing about this area is the wildlife. Some hikes you go the whole time without running into anything, this loop felt like I ran into the most animals on any hike I've ever done. Here's a video of the loop if you're into moving pictures.

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Re: Newberry Caldera North Rim Loop Hike 9/26/2021

Post by drm » October 21st, 2021, 12:48 pm

I've hiked the Paulina lake loop, I think it's one of the better lake loops around. But the rim loop, I think of that more of a bike loop since it's a lot of miles - isn't over 20 miles? But I guess some people hike much (or run) much more than that in a day.

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