Show LOFTY VOLCANO THAT SANK the highest mountain in oregon la Is hoalt hood flood feet above iea sea evel compared with mount blount whitney Walt ncy io thu this south in california and bud mount Ra rainier tiller to the north in washington lach tach rising well above fourteen thou and tand feet mount hood flood does not appear ear as a a skyscraper Ilo however wever ao otil lug to the geologists of the united geological survey and other authorities oregon had bad at one time ro bably before the dawn of life upon the earth a great volcano which tow ired as far above mount blount hood aa as doea does mount RaIn rainier ler possibly even o 0 several thousand feet higher this was the treat meant blount mazama dut but thousands it of years ago this mountain digap 31 feared into the bowels of the earth nd lad all f that tei A left today Is the huge lira rim around ground cragar lake crater laka lake la in the caldera of this extinct inet and collapsed volcano and la Is nearly six miles in diameter the in side vails wall of the rim of the ancient mountain are in places nearly four thousand feet high and almost perpendicular cular the lake take itself Is in place places to td thousand feet deep and parts of the wall rise above lie its waters another two to thousand feet A restoration of the mountain in fancy using an a basis the ingles agles of the lower slope slopes which still remain shows that the could not have been far frem from fifteen apex thousand fet in height so that mount mazama was re one of the most lofty and majestic malet llo peaks in the united states |