S.O.T.T: Oregon is famous for few things - namely rain and being north of California. It hasn't really caught the eye of the world at large, perhaps because the things man builds here are no match for its natural beauty. There are no pyramids or skyscrapers that surpass the mountains and forests for their renown. One wonder of the wild is Crater Lake, located in the Cascade Range of Southwest Oregon. It is a bright blue cistern of pure rainwater lying in the crater of a long-dormant volcano named Mount Mazama. After violent eruptions exhausted the mountain's central spine of magma, Mazama's peak collapsed in on itself, leaving a giant bowl of ash and stone - known in geology talk as a caldera - which now holds the majestic Crater Lake. In true Oregon fashion it's more or less a famous puddle, but it's a beautiful puddle, attracting half a million visitors each year who come to admire its twelve square miles of heavenly blue. At one time the lake was thought to be bottomless, but now it's measured at 1,943 feet, making it the deepest in the US
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