Out the door, accompanied by Harriet,
with
errands
for
chains
and
funds,
then
north
on
505
and
5,
to Red Bluff and
Redding, and into the
highlands past
Mountain
Gate,
North Gray Rocks (still a prizewinner in the unimaginative names category),
Castle Crags, and
(not-so-at-this-time-of-the-year) Black Butte.
Pausing at Shasta City,
the
way
continues
across
the broken Valley with
vistas
southeast to the highest volcano in California,
proceeding apace (via Henley, Hornbrook, and Hilt)
over Siskiyou Summit and beyond -- where
Mt. Ashland,
Medford's
Table Rocks,
Canyonville,
Myrtle Creek, the
Roseburg Cliffs, and Troutdale lie shivering in the cold Oregonian night.
