A team of Crater Lake National Park’s trail crew recently spent three weeks at Triglav National Park in Slovenia repairing and rebuilding trails destroyed by 2023 storms and flooding. Triglav and Crater Lake are “sister parks” who, under an international agreement, have been collaborating on projects and occasionally exchanging staff to help implement special programs. “It is an absolutely beautiful…

5700 B.C. Mount Mazama was 12,000 feet tall at its peak. A dormant volcano erupts, creating the well-known Crater Lake. Mount Mazama’s elevation is now about 6000 feet up and is roughly 180,000 acres. The eruption of Mount Mazama catapulted enough ash and pumice to collapse the summit. Rain and snow melt accumulated in the caldera (a large depression formed…