Devastated Area - Lassen Volcanic National Park - California
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N 40° 31.043 W 121° 27.914
10T E 630015 N 4486315
Photos of the 1915 Devastated Area along the Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway.
Waymark Code: WMJG2N
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/13/2013
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Original photo is on history sign on the Devastated Area Trail in Lassen Volcanic National Park. On the night of May 19-20, 1915 an eruption at the summit of Mt. Lassen resulted in an avalanche/mudflow depositing in many large hot boulders being deposited along Lost Creek. Two days later (morning of May 22) B.F. Loomis photographed this large boulder and that afternoon the final large eruption of Mt. Lassen occurred. Today, the forest which was destroyed the night of May 19-20 has returned to obscure the view of Lassen Peak.
Text of sign - Benjamin Franklin Loomis
Businessman, amateur photographer, and author, B.F. Loomis began photo-chronicling Lassen Peak’s eruptions in 1914. His photographs brought national attention to the volcano and helped to bring about the establishment of Lassen Volcanic National Park.
The rock before you, shaded by these maturing trees, is the same rock labeled by B.F. Loomis in this classic photograph of the newly formed Devastated Area. This several-ton rock was hot to touch when Loomis photographed it three days after it was ejected from the crater of Lassen Peak as a new-glowing lava rock.
Many large rocks, some of them hot, were thrown from the crater, or torn off the lip of the crater on the west side, and carried down the creek by the raging torrents. -- B.F. Loomis, Pictorial History of the Lassen Volcano, 1926
Year photo was taken: 1915
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