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Another Park
On Tuesday morning we left Auburn shortly after Lisa went in for her post-op appointment. Madison was sad, it seemed, that we were leaving. I did give her a dog treat to remember me by, just in case.
Our trip that day was to a campground, Kulshan, a few miles from Concrete, WA, about a hundred and fifty miles. The Hussy, also known as the Android Navigator, kept trying to get us to follow I-50. She did it, in fact for over a ...
The North Cascades Part II
This morning we all slept in. We each slept 11 maybe 12 hours and we were all sore this morning. We woke up around 10 o'clock and hung around lightning creek until we ate lunch. After lunch, we packed up and started our hike down to Mary campground. It was an 8.2 mile hike. The scenery is the same as the other days, gorgeous and mesmerizing. I could get used to living here if it ...
The North Cascades Part I
... hike down Ross Lake. We couldn't go that far because the lake was too shallow. Apparently the water level relies on snow melt each year. We parked our car at the Ross lake trail head and started hiking to the Ross Lake Resort. They were our ride to lightning creek. (Ross Lake Resort is a floating resort that lies on a man made lake). Once we hiked a mile or so, we hopped in the taxi and headed up to Lightning Creek. The ride was only ...
Drive to The North Cascades
... and got gas, the gas was $4.35! The highest we had ever seen and hopefully the highest we will ever see on this trip. We got to the North Cascades just in time to get a backcountry permit before the visitors center closed. We got there with 7 minutes to spare. We then went to out campsite that was deep in the woods, or it least it seemed that way. The campsite was ...
A Grand Spectacular Drive
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We drove down Whidbey Island remembering a visit we had there several years ago. At that time we visited a great little light house in the island. We had read about Ebey's Landing National Reserve (we love National Park sites) and so even though it was after hours, we decided to drive by the area. It was another confusing area as the park consists of much of the town. We stopped at the farm land area and the cemetary and took in some nice ...