Mount Lassen by moonlight is something not to be missed

I have been a lot of places, I’ve been around the world, but I was not prepared for the awesomeness of my last adventure.

During the most recent full moon, I climbed an active volcano in Lassen National Park in California, Mount Lassen. The National Park website had advertised doing the five mile roundtrip hike under moonlight, so I timed my most recent sojourn to Santa Barbara County, in order to complete this hike under the recommended conditions.

I left Cheney at 11:30 a.m. drove straight through to Northern California arriving at 2 a.m. the next morning as the rising “Full Buck Moon” was a...