Boat Ramp Next to Upper Klamath Lake, OR

Its early morning as we pass a green expanse of farmland and pull into a parking lot with a boat ramp sloping into the massive waters of Upper Klamath Lake. Paving machines drone next to us, widening the road winding along the lake shore. A thick haze of yellow-brown wildfire smoke hangs in the air, obscuring faint outlines of the high peaks surrounding Crater Lake across the water.