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Who cares about the snow? Look at the mountains! My day in Three Sisters Wilderness was one of the best of the trip -- I was mystified by these volcanoes, these freaks of geology.

The South Sister. If you have a copy of it, take a look at the picture of South Sister in the PCT guidebook, probably taken in the late-1970's -- the mountain is capped with a massive calving glacier, which is nowhere to be seen today.

Middle Sister

North Sister

Lava flows, cinder cones, and the North Sister

Shadows cast across a cinder cone, which formed when a vent began spewing volcanic material from the earth.

Extensive lava flows with views of the Three Sisters, near McKenzie Pass.

If you were heading southbound, this is the view you'd get. For northbounders, it just makes for a good picture.

Another burn zone south of Mt. Jefferson. This area is beginning to recover, though it will be many years before mature firs inhabit the area.

The south side of Three Fingered Jack, a deeply eroded shield volcano (which, in contrast to stratovolcanoes like the Three Sisters, has long gentle slopes resulting from low-viscosity basaltic lava flows).

The backside of Three Fingered Jack

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