Author: harrylange

Kanaskat State Park – Saturday November 17, 2012

We are out for the weekend, wind and little rain.

Site 32.

Last week I stumbled upon a Washington State Parks senior citizen ( 62 ) winter access pass.  The pass cost $50.00 and is good from October 1 to March 31, non electrical is $free & electrical is $6.00.  Friday night cost $27.00 tonight will be $6.00.

2:00 p.m. the comment rain has changed,  increased to real RAIN.

 

Crystal Mountain – Sunday October 7, 2012

Jean has to work this beautiful weekend so Hank and I are at Crystal Mt.

It does not sound like the best campground around however it really is a nice place when you have the whole place to yourself.
Yesterday Hank hiked up to Hen Skin Lake.

And yes not a cloud in the sky

The first time I was at Hen Skin Lake was in 1959 with Dad and his friend Jim Hogan.  That was a long time ago.   I think it was 1959 because I don’t remember ever going fishing with Dad when we lived in Enumclaw.

 

Hen Skin Lake    5552 elevation
here: 46 55.133 N 121 29.024  http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:46.91889,-121.48374

This picture is from the mid 60’s.  I can tell by pack boards they were made around 63 or 64.  I think this was taken on the trail to Hidden Lake, we used to go there a lot for the big trout.

 

Here are a couple of pictures of where we are camped:

Looking up to the ridge line.

Last night Hank & I went for a walk in the dark.  He was exhausted when we got back home however when I said walk he was up and ready to go.  We had a good weekend.

Home – Monday September 23, 2013

I didn’t close out vacation.

Saturday we drove 552 miles in 12.5 hours coming across Chinook Pass.  As a footnote Chinook pass should get some snow tonight.  We used only 303 gallons of gas. We usually use between 400 and 450 gallons when we venture out into eastern Utah and/or northern Arizona.

I know change is usually good, however Google has changed the structure of photo sharing again.  They want to force you to share through Google Plus and all I want to do is to allow sharing through a know link.  I found this link information last night and tonight I’ve looked to 5 minutes and still can not figure out how to find the albums URL.  I want to add the URL to this post so only people who have been to this blog can see the pictures.

4 minutes later, I found it.

Hopefully this is the link to a short photo album of our Fall 2013 vacation.

https://plus.google.com/photos/103251228629758359940/albums/5926676480697151457?authkey=CPiN1svBnuP6ZQ

 

Harry

 

Lees Ferry, AZ – September 10, 2012

We are now at Lee’s Ferry  Recreational Area over looking the Colorado River.  Our camp site looks down on the river. We’ve had several thunder showers go
through and the wind is blowing steady at 35-40.
This is a major starting point for rafting the Grand Canyon and I hope to get pictures of the rafts going down the river.  Don’t know when they start but I can see a bunch of rafts in the water about a mile up river and 3 tour buses have driven by and stopped where the rafts by the river.

Here is today’s camp site.
Rear view

Note the sun cover over the picnic table.