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Central Oregon is more like the eastern side of the mountains in the west, dry but not dehydrated, expansive, grand and volcanic, than the western side, wet and wooded, though it encompasses generous amounts of the geography, climates and topography associated with either, and all the surface, world and wilderness that typically runs among, across and around big mountains, lakes, forests, hillsides, deserts and volcanoes. And like a heartbeat, or an epicenter or a ground zero, Crater Lake sits in the middle of it all, more astonishing and deeper than anything else in the world.