A few summers ago, my wife and I hopped into our truck and drove off into the spatter cones and lava flows of the Deschutes National Forest south of Bend. We’d been down these dirt roads many times before, either to hike Bessie Butte or to find our way out to Hidden Forest Cave. Now we had our sights on a lesser-known peak, 5,236-foot Luna Butte, a pleasing gumdrop of cinder and pinewood where the earth rises into the blistered highlands of Newberry National Volcanic...
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