Crater Lake, OR

I could describe this whole experience in three facts, good and bad.
1.Crater Lake National Park contains the most mosquitoes in one place I’ve ever seen.
2.It is without a doubt the most beautiful lake, possibly most beautiful body of water, I’ve ever seen.
3.There is snow on the ground in much of the park.
I’ll give you a second. Mosquitoes and snow. Yes, I didn’t know how to process that either. I guess it snows hundreds of feet there, and takes all summer to melt. As the snow melts, there’s standing water, and the mosquitoes have a field day. These mosquitoes were otherworldly. We covered ourselves in DEET and wore head to toe clothing; they didn’t care. We sat around a fire; they didn’t care. We sprayed DEET directly into their stupid faces and they only like, sort of dodged us for a minute.
So, cooking and eating was the most difficult. I needed to walk around in circles/pacing like an idiot to keep them off my food. I DO NOT want to eat a mosquito. So gross. We tried to play iPhone poker and sit around the fire, but that sucked. We narrowly avoided letting any bugs into the tent and just camped out in there to avoid them.
The next morning, we packed up and went to go see the lake. As beautiful as it was, with all the mosqiutos around, we really wernt looking to stay for any recreational activities. We took a ton of pictures, then drove off toward Seattle.
PS, Oregon overall, as a state, was so beautiful.