Geo (Gio) Rutherford

So Old Man of the Lake is an old hemlock stump, which is like a 400 year old tree that has been in the lake for as long as we have record.

Like we have a picture of this stump from like the 1800s.

It's been around for that long.

It's a deadhead stump, which is not in and itself unique.

Deadhead stumps happen a lot where the tree itself becomes waterlogged, but then like the top half of it kind of doesn't,

get waterlogged and remains dry.

And it kind of becomes like a cork where it's bobbing in the water.

But underneath the water, like you see the top half of this stump.

It's huge.

It's huge, by the way.

It's like you could stand on it.

And then there's like, I think there's 30, 40 feet beneath the surface of this log.

but if it's a calm day on the crater lake then you can see that entire log underneath the surface it freaks people out people love it but there is a conspiracy theory about the old man of the lake which is that if you tie him up like scientists apparently wanted to like study and get him out of the way like we got to keep the old man out of here like let's tie him up so he tied him up and there was this crazy storm on crater lake that like didn't stop until they released the old man people like think the old man kind of is almost like a spirit that kind of

is present at Crater Lake.

You can take the boat and the boat, if you're lucky on that boat ride with National Park Service, it'll take you to pass the old man and you can go say hi to him.

Yeah, it's really fun.

Oh, yeah.

Actually, I was going to say, Allie, if we didn't talk about Lake Baikal, I was going to bring her up.

Okay, good.

Good, good, good, good.