Tag: camping
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scenic beach
I lost my camping mojo after the last trip of last year. Just didn’t think I had it in me for this summer. For the first time in many years, I didn’t stalk parks.wa.gov site 9 months out, waiting to scoop up my favorite sites. Usually we camp 3 or 4 times in a year, […]
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Lopez 2011
Along with some friends, we have been spending one weekend plus a few days on Lopez Island for the last 5 Augusts. (That is a strange sentence, but I think you know what I mean.) We camp at Spencer Spit, a state park that has decent sites and access to the beach, but no showers […]
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camp life
We spent the last four days at Grayland Beach State Park with some friends, old and new. For the first time, we had to make camp in the rain – dislike. And it POURED the whole night. LOUDLY. Luckily by the middle of the next day, we got some dry time, enough to wander out […]
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steamboat rock
I spent the last 3 days at Steamboat Rock State Park, about 4 hours east and north of Seattle. It takes its name from a massive basalt rock that now rises 800 feet above Banks Lake; it was originally an island in the Columbia River bed. Banks Lake is a man-made 27-mile-long lake formed […]
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camporama
About this time of year, me and some like-minded others start having camping withdrawal. The others would not include the Professors or Lefty, nor, truth be told, my own family. But I ignore them and forge ahead with the stalking of prime spots beginning in October the year BEFORE the summer we want to go. […]
foible and folly 