Tag: butte

• Camp Abbot Cinder Pit

  

  I grew up on a cinder road, south of Sunriver. I remember the neighbor kid’s collecting very shiny, iridescent type lava rocks from the ditches that lined our street. They swore that boiling the rocks made the rainbow effect even stronger. The rocks were porous and lighter than other rocks their size, some could even […]

  naybeline

  May 16, 2016

  buttes, camp abbot, geocaching, hiking, lava cast forest, sunriver

  butte, camp abbot, lava butte, lava cast forest, sunriver

• Pistol Butte

  

  There is something about a Butte, once you climb it, you never forget it. The more little bumps you recognize on the horizon, the better you know the land as a whole. 7 miles from my house is 5,154 foot tall Pistol Butte. Locals say the butte was named after Pistol Pete, a notorious mountain man who […]

  naybeline

  May 16, 2016

  buttes, fall river, geocaching, pistol butte, sunriver

  Bend, butte, camping, central oregon, fall river, firelookout, geocaching, hiking, pacific northwest, pistol butte, recreating, sunriver

• Lava Butte

  

  Halfway between Bend and Sunriver is Lava Butte, a 5,020 foot cinder cone. The Lava Lands Visitor Center sits at the base of the butte and is the hub of the Newberry Caldera National Monument. The center hosts a delightful northwest bookstore and informative interpretive site (complete with topographic map and helpful rangers). There is an easy […]

  naybeline

  May 16, 2016

  bend, buttes, family adventure, lava butte, newberry national monument

  Bend, bend oregon, benham falls, butte, caldera, central oregon, fire lookout, hiking, lava, lava butte, lava fields, newberry crater, Oregon, sunriver