I don't know that area well so I did this Google Map search. Don't know if
that route is a good one for sightseeing, biking, fishing .. ??

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Crater+Lake,+OR&daddr=Lakeview,+OR&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=59.986788,115.927734&ie=UTF8&z=9
Might be a good place to start?

bob ... Headed for mt. st. helens area in 2 weeks for a week.

>  Planning on trying to find a back road (forest service?) from Crater Lake
> area across towards Lakeveiw..I recall seeing something passing through
> both
> those areas multiple times, headed elsewhere.  We may spend some time
> around
> Paisley (home of a "Mosquito Festival" so maybe not..) perhaps catching a
> fishing outing on the Chewichan(sp?) river, which has always looked to be
> interesting fishing water as I've passed it.
>  Then maybe swing east into the Warner Mts or North up 385 back towards the
> Columbia River Gorge around The Dalles (Home, for us)...Dunno, kinda an
> unscripted loose plan to simply explore some territory I have passed
> through
> too many times to count and always wanted to stop and look about.
>  anybody have any suggestions?
>   Don Hanson
>