Gigapixel view from the summit of Little Glass Mountain (elev. 6,865') in the Medicine Lake Volcano, California.  Having erupted about 1,000 years ago, the flow is quite recent & formidable to walk through.  It is just like Glass Mountain to the east, but this flow is much smaller, being about a square mile in size.  In isolated pockets there are trees that are making a foothold within the dacite (the obsidian outcroppings tend to be found along the edges of the flow).  Views of neighboring Little Mountain Hoffman, Pumice Stone Mountain, & distant Mount Shasta & Lassen Peak.  There is still haze to the south from the Slater/Devils Peak fire & the Red Salmon Complex burning in the Klamath Mountains to the west.  This is from the second high point as the true summit is the pyramid spire 100' away (and for scale, it is about 40' in height, meaning ropes are necessary to reach the pointy tip).  Each of the rock piles & mini canyons in the immediate view have about a 40' difference in elevations, making all of these pointy sharp rocks a nightmare to hike through.

Gigapixel panorama (1.101 gigapixels), 268 photos, 46920x23640 pixels