Crater Lake Oregon Cliff Jumping Cleetwood Cove
Celebrating Life after death Solo in Oregon by visiting Crater Lake Oregon which has always been on my bucket list. At the time I was leaving Oregon I felt my life was cratering when my family was pretending they loved and cared about me after 9 points of magnesium poisoning an SCD sudden cardiac death and a couple months on dialysis they thought that one weekend with them in Sisters Oregon would make me feel good? That's not what sadistic narcissist's are about they had invited me knowing that I had hopes of seeing my daughter and knowing that she was out of the country and so it was a way to hurt me and so I needed something on the trip home to heal me and that's why I drove the twenty five miles off the I-99 to see the one time volcano now filled with water with a tip that still protrudes and is called Wizard island. The only way down to cliff jump is the hike the 1.1 mile Cleetwood Cove Trail to get to the water's edge, and take a freestyle cliff jumping plunge. A place to wash off the icky and reclaim a life. My life.
Since 1996, yep for 21 years I had been driving from California to Oregon promising myself "one day" I'm driving those 23 (twenty-three) miles off I-97 to Crater Lake one of 5 Volcanos in Oregon and America's "Deepest Lake" my parents hadn't brought me to Oregon for a "visit" for any other reason to inflict pain:( They knew it was my daughter's 21st birthday, and these supposed "parents"? Well they knew I had dreams of reconnecting with my beloved daughter and they also knew she wasn't even in the Country? They (my parents) had
invited me to Oregon simply to watch me in pain. On a soul level? I began my own change. Fuck generational narcissistic abuse! Time to suck the marrow out of life!!
Ever wonder how to say "Love" in Universal Sign Language? Look at my hand and read the sign! In remembering what got me to Crater lake August 26th, 2017? It only made the experience of cliff jumping that day more life affirming!!
It actually took an NDE June 3, 2017 to wake up to the fact that my parents are personality disordered and incapable of love, and love to scapegoat me. My job is to ignore their noise and love myself
July 17, 2017 was a total eclipse of the sun and also the removal of my heart port. I no longer needed machines to run my heart. I was set free, and began a new life!
Anytime I need to remind myself why I "Stay Gone" I only need to remind myself of my NDE June 3, 2017 and that I have worth and value! I love myself!!
I never got the name of the perfect stranger who was working at Trader Joe's the day I told him I was off dialysis, but when he handed me a bouquet of flowers and told me "you're a miracle" well Love is Love and I trust strangers more than family on any given day. On that day? I cried at a complete strangers act of love and said "Thank You"!!
If you want to "Cliff Jump" Crater Lake? That takes commitment. It doesn't hurt to have a bestie like Gigi who's down for observing your adrenaline antics!!
Bye Bye Alien! Hell Yes, just say no to heart ports
After driving the 23 miles off of Hwy 97 to get to America's deepest lake which plunges an amazing 1,943 feet of depth I was going to have to dig deep to reach the edge where I could cliff jump while gazing at "Wizard Island" which rises 750 feet to reach the "take off" for a cliff jump it was going to be a very long hike for someone just off dialysis, like 2.5 hours? Was I going to turn back? Hell no!!
There are 4 forest Zones of Crater Lake: Ponderosa, LodgePole, White Bark and Mountain Hemlock. The last of the four? You'll walk through to get to Cleeetwood Cove it's the Mountain Hemlock which you can identify by their "droopy" tops :)
Normally I prefer to get the "hard" part of any hike done first, but if you're going to reach the shores of Crater lake for that amazing lateral view of Wizard Island? It's 1.1. miles each way, but I would allow 3X longer for the hike up than the hike down, but oh so worth it!
I have never been to Greece, but as I imagine it? It would resemble the bottom of Cleetwood Cove
I trust few people, but I always trust the Water.
I much prefer jumping off of cliffs to being choppered into an ICU. After you have an SCD (Sudden Cardiac Death) nothing in the external world is quite as scary :)
