On May 13, 1926, Tom Massey, Joe Odette and John Solari invited Charles Adams on a fishing trip to Butte and Snag Lakes in the eastern segment of Lassen Volcanic National Park. Adams had no idea what kind of expedition this would be. After hiking around Butte Lake, then onto Snag Lake, something had to be done to look elsewhere since the fish did not seem to exist in these two lakes. It was decided to climb Cinder Cone in search of the wary trout. Needless to say it was a dry run, and Adams sighed that he would have been better off staying in Susanville.
