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| Itasca Camping Adventure | | Date Created: Sep 26, 2006, 01:38 AM |
 Annie, Emily and I decided to not cancel the trip to Itasca despite the intimidating weather. When we set out Friday afternoon it was raining and all reports pointed towards more of the same for Saturday.
It had stopped raining by the time we arrived at the park. We were able to setup our camp with out getting too wet. Water from the previous rains was sprinkling us as the wind whipped through the trees. At Emily's excellent suggestion we had changed our campsite to the Pine Ridge camp from a cart-in site at the Bear Paw camp. There were many more trees for tarp tying and we found out later that the Bear Paw Camp was very open. In order to setup our awesome tarp on friday night I was converted into a jungle gym... it was worth it though to have a well positioned tarp in case of rain. :-)
It rained a little overnight but by the morning it had stopped and the rest of the day was rain free. As you'll see in the pictures we headed off to find the headwaters of the Mississippi and various other points of interest at the park. We even sighted some blue sky!! A great day even though it was overcast. Sunday was an absloutely fantastic day!! Lots of sun, blue sky, and warmer temperatures were with us all day.
A & E are hardcore campers to be sure!!
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| Temperance River Camping Trip | | Date Created: Sep 25, 2005, 09:43 PM |
| It was a fantastic weekend to be outside, although it did rain for about an hour on sunday evening. In the pictures you will see a brave little chipmonk getting some food. When I first entered started setting up camp he scampered up to me with this expectant look of "hey im cute. now where is my food!" I ended up running into some friends who were camped in the lower portion of the park. Talk about it being a small world!! |
| Another Weekend Unplugged | | Date Created: Aug 17, 2005, 10:30 PM |
This past weekend I went with family to Interstate Park in Wisconsin. The weather was spectacular, no bugs, and just enough cloud cover to keep it from being too hot. We had camp site 51 which was in the south camp. Friday night we just hung around the campfire for the most part.
Saturday I cooked breakfast on the fire using my cast iron skillets. There is nothing quite like the sizzle of bacon to wake up all your camping neighbors. After breakfast we headed out on the Silverbrook Trail which starts near the group camp sites. It passes an old copper mine, which doesnt look like much, and ends at Silverbrook Falls. The falls are fairly short but its an easy but worthwhile hike.
On the way back we picked out some "beanie-whackers" and had a bit of a fight on the way back. If you've never been whacked by a beanie-whacker it kinda feels like getting hit by a paint ball at medium range. Well it can hurt more if you REALLY swing hard... I think JD and I both scored at least one good hit each. Unfortunately I dont have a picture of a beanie-whacker for you.
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Esther had a great idea for watching the meteor shower that was happening on Friday and Saturday night. We ended up bringing a tarp, blankets and sleeping bags over to the beach by Lake of the Dalles to watch the show.
The moon was still up so I'm sure we missed some of the smaller shooting stars but there were several decent ones along with one HUGE one that really lit up the sky. About 20 minutes into the show I heard this really strange noise. It wasnt the compressor for the pop machine that was over by the beach house. It wasnt an animal. It was a strange hissing noise that reminded me of when the water is pumped out of the sprinkler lines in the fall...
SPRINKLERS!!!!
Just as I realized what the sound was, I started laughing knowing that in about 2 seconds we would be hit by the sprinklers. We quickly got out of our sleeping bags and dragged the tarp and blankets out of the spray zone. We didnt get too terribly soaked. The sprinklers ended our little star gazing event earlier than any of us wanted but it made for a funny situation.
On Sunday we packed up camp in leisurely fashion and headed into St. Criox to check out the dam. It really wasnt worth pictures...at least not from where we were viewing. Then we went down to Osceola to gander at Cascade Falls on the way back home. |
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