Crater Lake is magnificent, breathtaking, and inspiring. The ride to Crater Lake is just as enjoyable. Stops on the way. Little towns. Breathtaking.

when the lodges first opening after the face lift in 93 I was the pantry chef,i stayed on property,and got to know the volcano personally...what a life changing experience..

This film looks like one of those projector films we watched in 6th grade in 1972.

@We_Seek_Truth

10 күн бұрын

And as we did in the 60s.

yep,I moved three 24 years ago crater lake,the coast, mountains so so beautiful!!!!do

Just back from Crater Lake. No picture or documentary can describe this lake. It is something you just have to take time off to go see. The blue color of the lake cannot be replicated. I took over 300 pictures of the lake and the surrounding formations at different times of the day and no picture can capture it. Only your mind and heart can remember what this place is like. Pictures simply "jar" the memories back.

@mattglad

8 жыл бұрын

i moved to southern Oregon about a year and a half ago. I've been up to the lake 4 times and it never stops overwhelming.

@rebeccaoreilly9461

7 жыл бұрын

that's awesome. can't wait to see very soon !!

@burninglass

6 жыл бұрын

Rodney Johnson. I appreciate your post. For some reason I have always been drawn to this lake. I've always wanted to see it. Lately tho I've heard some eerie things that scare me. So glad to hear a positive critique of this legendary peak. And glad to hear you had a good safe experience.

@Lonzosvideos

6 жыл бұрын

Rodney Johnson I’ve visited crater lake over a dozen times. One of the reasons why I stopped taking pictures. I can’t capture the beauty of this caldera

@rahulbhaskar6790

6 жыл бұрын

It's funny how all the majestic wilderness accessible to man are in the United States.....No where else.

A friend and I camped overnight on the rim in June 1993. We competed at the U.S. Outdoor National Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene and then took a road trip around the western USA. Crater Lake was our stop the first night. There was still a lot of snow on the ground. In the morning a park ranger stopped by and told us we couldn't camp in the park. We said no problem. We were cool, we just wanted to spend the night, mission accomplished. We had breakfast, broke camp and hit the road. It is a beautiful place.

The lousy music drowns out the narration.

@frankherman5195

3 жыл бұрын

Get your hearing checked.

@migranthawker2952

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankherman5195 Why? He's quite right!

@cowboykelly6590

2 жыл бұрын

Aahhh...the flute. BAHAHAHA..🤣 UGH ! Aahh yes, The Ear piercing Ambiance, 🤣 The uninteresting tune 🤣

@cowboykelly6590

2 жыл бұрын

@@migranthawker2952 BAHAHAHA..🤣 He sure is . UGH ! 🤣

@cowboykelly6590

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankherman5195 UGH.. BAHAHAHA 🤣... But , he is so right . 🤠🖖

Nice to see the old docus again.

My parents and his brothers family that lived in Stockton drove here around 1956 I didn't realize then perhaps I was too young how beautiful and didn't recall its incredible history Thanks for the memories Enjoyed it very much

In the 60's there was a dead tree trunk floating upright in the lake. The roots had grown around a rock, and when the tree fell in the water the rock provided just the right amount of ballast. I remember seeing it, it was called the "Lady in the Lake" or something like that. I think it floated around the lake for years... Does any one else remember?

@douglasscott5623

6 жыл бұрын

ok they just showed it 30:33 it's the Old Man of the lake!

@michaelchristensen9004

6 жыл бұрын

That tree trunk is called " the old man of the lake" and it's still floating in the lake.

@housetopranch

6 жыл бұрын

I had the unique privilege of standing on the Old Man Of The Lake back in 1973 or thereabouts after my hike on the Pacfic Crest Trail from Mt. Hood to Crater Lake. Unlike the footage shown here, the top had been sawed flat. It was probably 3 feet across and rock solid, almost like standing on a concrete pier. When that tour boat pulled away from me and left me all alone standing on that tree trunk in the middle of Crater Lake I felt pretty small and vulnerable. (The boat returned for me in a few minutes.) My buddy, who worked at the lodge and had arranged for my short occupation of The Old Man Of The Lake as well as the boat driver, got into plenty of hot water when the story got back to the higher ups as it is strictly forbidden! But I still cherish that memory! I bet fewer people have stood on that old stump than have claimed Mount Everest!

Lovely, attractive and loving documentary. For those who don't care for it, people have different tastes, and not everyone has the attention span needed to appreciate this.

wow haven't seen this in ages..ty for posting

beautifully done with just the right amount of scientific information added at just the right time

This is an old documentary, of course. But the way it's presented is phenomenal. Not only the scenery, but also the music and even the voice and the pace and the presentation of the narrator to the story is unrivaled. It's a gentle soothing Serene way of presenting a documentary and it totally suits the feeling of what the documentary is about. It is a wonderful piece of art.

@jonmacdonald5345

5 жыл бұрын

Semper Fidelis Right this was from back in the Days! they Need to Make Documentaries Great Again!

@TheDevler23

5 жыл бұрын

They also managed to tell the story as the natives know it, without mocking or being dismissive. Instead, showing how their verbal histories tell the geologic history.

Crater Lake is still considered an active volcano. It is not extinct, just dormant. It can rise again.

I live inside the crater of an ancient volcano. It collapsed into the sea some 90,000 years ago. It was called El Golfo and you can see it on a map ot El Hierro, Canary Islands. The island was formed by this and two previous landslides, so it is the shape of a boot. It is to the south west of Tenerife, which still has a huge volcano.

@dmcnamara9859

6 жыл бұрын

Elisabeth Bird: Pictures/Postcards don't give Crater Lake justice...ditto for Hawaii. You must see it in person...the presence of both is un-describable. I live near Mt. Shasta (another beauty of Volcanism and Nature)..and every summer when the Park Service has "free-entry day"...I make it a habit to make the 1 1/2 hour+ drive and walk the tremendous Graded 2-Mile path down to the Lake...swim/jump off the precipice nearby. When I was a kid, the Environmental Nazis did not allow the public to swim in the lake.....through much lobbying over the Years, Park Service gave in to the Public demand. Canary Islands? WOW!.... I share a close B-Day with a tragedy that took place on Tenerife.....when those two Jumbo Jets slammed into each other on that foggy day.

@elisabird6245

6 жыл бұрын

Love to go there, but right now can´t afford it. Will add it to my bucket list.

@dmcnamara9859

6 жыл бұрын

Restricted (non published) Airfares are still dirt cheap (usually bought 6 months to a year + out direct from the Carrier).Here in the USA, one can rent a cheap new Korean car for $79.00-120.00 a week from a National Rental Agency with unlimited miles. Once you get to the States, head for a National Forest area for "free lodging"after you buy some "expendable" groceries and trip to Walmart for $30.00-$50.00 tent. It costs nothing in the United States to camp on National Forest areas. There is however...a customary 3 week limit. Many people (with families) from Europe come to the Mt. Shasta area,etc....and vacation on the cheap...they camp in a tent and make their own food. They can't believe you can just find any spot and camp for free.... a Right here that is absolutely forbidden/Regulated in Europe. It's easily conceivable with a Restricted airfare,rental car,tent,basic food items included....two people can easily have good time doing the "nature thing" in the USA for two to three weeks. for under $1500.00...even getting from you are at. Naturally,more people means less money....as that rental car amount can be split even more (when you're talking friends traveling together).

@walther7147

4 жыл бұрын

Elisa Bird It may awake again

What a fantastic place .

This video really highlights the beauty of it’s nature. Thank you for this resource 😊💎💙🏔️

that flute almost made my head explode.

That was an outstanding documentary film and I'd love to visit there this summer!

@IanP1963

Жыл бұрын

They were in the 1970's and 1980's - today the film bods have no clue !!!!

I got to go to CL when I was 8 and again at 10 years old. I still think the place was the most beautiful and amazing place I’ve ever been. And that was back in ‘81 & ‘83.

I visited Crater Lake in June 1997 and it was snowing ! I wanted to stay longer but I was afraid of getting snow bound so I left very quickly.

I so want to see this one day...so awesome...

I love the music.

I really love this video! So beautiful and educational! Where are these videos today??? 😮

BEAUTIFUL 😃

The music is amazing, and perfect

I live here and have for 20 years. I love it here!

Love this documentary. Anyone know what the music is during the mountain climbing? 32:30

@littielesbians

6 жыл бұрын

It's the theme song to Jeopardy.

I don't mind flutes but after about 5 minutes it's time to play another instrument or 2..............

I SWEAR THAT NARRATOR IS THE ACTOR THAT PLAYED THE CAPT ON THAT MOVIE COMEDY AIRPLANE LMAO

Yes ! The spiritual world is so much more fascinating than the 3D world, thank you for sharing this.

FANTASTIC🌟👍👏, comprehensive & detailed ~ LOVE how the natives/ first peoples’ perspectives & traditions are so well covered. This is a MUST~see for anyone wishing to behold this grandeur for the first time, as well as those of us who have beheld it again & again! THANK YOU🌟🙏🙏 for this!

It's beautiful in the winter. Short video of the snow in jan 2020

next on nova: the woodwind instrument, narrated by Jodie Foster

I have some awesome drone footage from all around this beautiful lake! Before they made it against the law to fly in National Parks! Oh the land of what used to be free

@kristinebailey2804

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

Been there..Crater Lake is beyond description!! Thanks for the video, but in all honesty must say that the dull colors were a bit disappointing. Any- way, I enjoyed a second viewing via your video!

There are so many Sasquatch in the region surrounding the lake I will never camp alone there ever ever again... Footprints ,howls, stalking -never again...

@brandonsavitski

Жыл бұрын

Sasquatch's are friendly

An amazing display of nature. Whoever may of lived when it did it's thing I doubt survived, & if they did they probably went deaf. Aside I think it would be kinda cool of one if the volcanoes came back to life.

It's amazing the deepest lake in the United States occupies the caldera that was once Mount Mazama. The eruption was 42 times more powerful than the May 18 eruption of Mount St. Helens. That shows just how destructive a volcanic eruption can be.

Sounds like the voice of Peter Graves.

The lodge is great to stay at also --make restaurant reservation if staying there - limited seating and there is very little other options for food - Mazama village is it. Well worth it!

Yep, I made it through the whole damn documentary. Waited and waited but Billy Jack never did make an appearance

i saw the lake in the 70's

@orgami100

6 жыл бұрын

Fepe Vegan Same here. . Motorcycling up there in the 70s..

@intersections2428

6 жыл бұрын

first sight as i made my way from olympic national down the coast, saw crater lake and fell in love with beauty and the awe of it

Good doc if it weren't for the music score...

I highly recommend the space ship..at night.

Beautiful . (The background music is a downer )

The thunderbolt project !!!

Reminds me of this gal I Used to Know

The POWER of NATURE!!!....How about YELLOWSTONE , a SUPERVOLCANO!!!!.....an End to Man as we know it!!!!! but What BEAUTY is NATURE!!.....Was there in 1954.......Was Awesome then!!

Flute is pretty but way too loud. It takes away from natural sounds and the narration.

who is the narrator

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

c w, read the credits and find out then post it for others.

That looks like a volcano Caldera volcano IT scares me

When you think of 2000 feet deep and that wide that was an incredible amount of rock to have blown out during the eruption. Although there are big pieces of course and many smaller ones most of that must have been ash. I still have trouble with the concept of rock turning to ash, after all rock doesn't burn, but there is no doubt that it must have been a real killer for 100's of miles.

@paulrandig

4 жыл бұрын

Volcanic ash is not like the ash of your camp fire. Think of it as snow. Rock can melt when it gets really hot. When it gets thrown out of a volcanoe, it happens as drops. Those drops eventually cool down. If they are big they are called "bombs". But if they are tiny, smaller than 2mm, you can regard them as a kind of mist. They are so small that they cool quickly and turn solid after just moments during their flight. Like water drops, they cristallize, but the minerals take on different shapes than water ice. So you call those small, very light - and due to their shape very aggressive - grains "volcanic ash".

did steele not notice the indigenous people? he DISCOVERED not much...and the only stops at wizard island these days is by the klamath and other nearby native indian groups . .i knew an old woman who lived on the siuslaw river ( She was half klamath and half siuslaw indian) - the siuslaw is a couple of hundreds miles away from crater and it empties into the pacific at florence oregon. she told me stories about visiting wizard island for sacred ceremonies as a kid (she married a white guy) and that white people weren't allowed there anymore. the boats had to stay a respectful distance from it to not disturb the spirits there..... she was one of the most unique people i've ever met. she'd stand in an aisle that she saw me headed for (kitchen) and she say in a feeble voice "am i in your road sister?" i was 5'9" and she was about 4'9" and in her 80s. i feel honored to have known her.

w-o-a-h

I am surprised so many people in here in the comments are so ignorant of North American history.and want to know so little of it. You live on a landmass that is forged by the history of this continent. There is a lot more here than just the folklore of the ancient people who lived here. First of all you get an idea how long ago all of these lands were settled by various tribes and nomadic civilizations. If you listen to the folklore and stories passed down, you can piece together history of what the land and regions were like. How dangerous it was. How active the volcanic regions were. For an example when the folklore of the Modok tribes and others tell of the eruption, you can also co.pare it to other folklore and oral lore passed on by other tribes elsewhere. When Mount Mazama blew, its eruption and explosion was so great that it was heard on the east coast. The Native American folklore in regions like New York areas tell of a oral tales that explain that sound and event.. how they related it to gods and spirits of their own understanding. Talk about destructive power.. volcanic explosion so massive it could be heard nearly 3000 miles away. And it was a distinctive loud explosion. Not just faint rumble.. The volcanic ash covered parts of the northwestern states to as far as central Canada. Rare particles of Mazama ash have even been found in ancient ice from Greenland. The airfall pumice and ash covered a total surface area of more than 2,600,000 km2 (1,000,000 mi2) at least 1 mm (fraction of an inch) thick, and no less than 13,000 km2 (5,000 mi2) more than 15 cm (6 in) thick. A volume of 42-54 km3 (10-13 mi3) of the mountaintop had disappeared. This was no eruption. The blast by what can be estimated indicates that magma was blown upward and out to nearly 8000 ft in elevation above the volcano...not just ash and cinder but the magma itself. Yes maybe something like Yellowstone a super volcano could be one massive eruption. . But look atthe size of it in comparison. And there is the fact that the magma chamber that feeds Yellowstone is 11 grand canyons in size and is far bigger than Yellowstone itself and stretches under multiple states. Mount Mazama is geologically recorded as one of the largest and most effective volcanic blasts that effected a good portion of the world. It had effects on weather everywhere..as the fine ash s Is found on other continents .

@MattCookOregon

3 жыл бұрын

Great info thank you. Us whiteys only been here for 200 years.

Many people have disappeared there

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

Carol V, that will happen in any wilderness area that attracts visitors, especially visitors who don't know what they are doing, and even perhaps a few who do. I remember talking to two guys a number of years ago that had gone camping in Alaska who came very close to dying simply because of their sheer ignorance, negligence, and lack of any reasonable preparation, from the clothing they were wearing to basic equipment. It would be all too easy for people, whether traveling solo or as a couple, to disappear and their remains found much later if ever. If you are going to go into wilderness everyone going MUST thoroughly educate himself and take adequate supplies to sustain life even outside of the expected weather and intended trip duration. This takes far more time and money than most people are willing to invest and they opt to gamble with theirs and others' lives. Sometimes they loose their bet.

@kristinebailey2804

3 жыл бұрын

Many have disappeared on Everest too.... so.................... and in Yellowstone and any place remote.

Im just wondering how many Mountain Dew bottles, used baby diapers and heroin needles are floating around in that lake now

Oregon.. poverty with a view!

@kristinebailey2804

3 жыл бұрын

When houses cost 300,000.00 and up, it isn't poverty honey. Not unless you're lazy and don't mind living in a 100,000.00 house trailer.

@seanwarren9357

2 жыл бұрын

​​@@kristinebailey2804 Tell us, Kristine, what is the cause of that inflated property value leaving many completely displaced from the market, one which is providing unstable wages no longer capable of sustaining property ownership? He's not wrong, even if you're fortunate enough to not have fallen, yet. Enjoy it while it lasts. Your remark casting a finger to lazyness and castigation to those who would pay a hundred thousand to live in a trailer is a perfect example of what is wrong out here in the otherwise perfect Northwest. Lazy, indeed, I wonder what you would call a hard day's labor that you would think to make such a claim.

वाव

Anyone else find the shots of the swimmers and snow climbers boring... more lake, less people. It is also not considered extinct, just dormant - not unlike the super volcano under Naples (and I'm not talking about Vesuvius.

i hate that fucking whistle

Music wrecks this programme, sorry cannot watch as my hearing is affected because off music.

This is an old travelog of Crater Lake National Park. If you're looking for a scientific dissertation on volcanism or geology, you'll have to look elsewhere.

Like a really long episode of Kung Fu.

The Natives that lived there survived this mountain exploding, moved back and thrived. However, could not survive the white invaders. Such a sad fact of this documentary.

@RubenANorte

6 жыл бұрын

Well, being perpetual hunter gatherers and never embracing the scientific method... they eventually were going to encounter people that were more advanced and more knowledgeable.

@gurumac8992

5 жыл бұрын

@@RubenANorte the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples has nothing to do with science or advancedment, its imperial barbarism!! Modern science is materialistic at its core & it will never unlock the keys of the universe until it reconciles its understanding of spirit, so those perpetual hunters gatherers you spoke of were the true advanced peoples, as they knew how to live in harmony & revered life in all its forms..✌🏼

@MountainFisher

5 жыл бұрын

@@gurumac8992 The Indians didn't live in harmony with each other. Many tribes wiped out neighboring tribes and the Aztecs grew an empire that was wiped out, not by barbaric imperialism, but by smallpox and measles. One of the reasons I'm not an atheistic materialist is because, whether they like it or not, their credo is adapt or die, only the strong survive and might makes right. Man is not good and that also goes for the mythical 'Noble Savage'.

I wish they would stop making documentaries with music.

@1pcmedic

4 жыл бұрын

Turn on CC and mute!

@hjpngmw

3 жыл бұрын

If only they'd stop using really obscure, pendantic piano....

Sloooww....

1:30 And the evangelicals are triggered...

That damned flute makes this video painful to watch !! [Aussie in BC]

Not true Steele did not find Crater Lake. This is a lie.He never started Crater Lake.

@nobody_gtk

3 ай бұрын

nuh uh

Please stop the repetitive annoying flute crap!

ABSOLUTELY BORING. I was hoping for something more educational. This thing nearly put me to sleep. And the piccolo drove me nuts. Never finished it...

@conniehoward447

6 жыл бұрын

Pat Me either , beautiful place , terrible documentary .

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

Or poor attention span.

Your flute racket makes this film impossible to watch...

@thisutuber

6 жыл бұрын

Stops at 8:50

@bradwhitham4115

5 жыл бұрын

Install an equalizer app and simply drag down that frequency. Easy, and works for all kinds of videos with bad sound.

@DanielDahlman

5 жыл бұрын

ahahahah

This one just doesn't do it for me. Too much fluff not enough stuff

They have to insert the bs story of some Greek like tragedy. Just give the documentary without trying to continuously disprove God.

Borrrrrrr... rrrrrrriiiiiiinnnnng!!

Monotonous music and lack of scientific facts. A pre-schoolers documentary.

Horrible.

Were the Native People's ever given any portion back? How are we protecting the lake by running boats on it? Are the Park Rangers closely watching open fires at campsites?

i wish that stupid music wasn't on in the background

Horrid music ruined the video

Turn down the music

i was there in 1987 drove from whistler bc