Category: Campgrounds

Rest Stop East of Austin, NV – Monday September 1, 2014

Left Vicki and Richard’s at 9:45 for parts east and south. 

I pulled into a Pony Express historical site for lunch, great place for lunch, not big enough for me to turn around in with the car in tow.  After lunch I got to unhook the car so I could backup to get back on the road.  Oh well, I hope I don’t do this to often.

This is where we spent the night.
I am here: 39 29.877 N 116 30.31 W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.49796,-116.50517

Spark’s, NV – Sunday August 31, 2014

We all went to the Reno City Park which has a lake to Paddle Board.  Vicki took up paddle boarding a couple of months ago and she let me use her board while two of her friends came with their boards. It was great fun and I didn’t fall in the water.  That is really quite good for me because I don’t have the greatest sense of balance. I got up and down maybe 10 times and managed to keep myself dry. 

While Vicki and I were paddle boarding Jean and Richard looked at RV’s.  Jean didn’t find anything she liked better than our current motorhome. 

Spark’s, NV – Saturday August 30, 2014

We went to the Reno BBQ Ribs Cook Off in downtown Reno in the area around the Nugget Casino.  Looked around at a lot of the craft vendors there must have been well over 100.  It was hot and all ribs venders wanted between $7.00 to $11.00 to try a sampler of four ribs so we went inside the casino and had a nice lunch with air conditioning.

Orovada, NV – Thursday August 28, 2014

Had a nice drive to this highway rest stop one mile south of Orovada. Traveled 450 miles all on two lane roads with speed limit of 55 mph. Left at 10:00 am and got here at 8:30 pm with only one truck and one trailer. I’ll have to take campsite pictures in the morning because it was already dark when we arrived.

We did see a lot of smoke from Oregon’s four large fires :-(.
The trip:

Crystal Mt. – Monday July 28, 2014

Another write offline to be published later.

Monday Hank and I hiked up to Bullion Basin.  It was a beautiful day, we had a good time and were TIRED when we got back.  Left about 10:30 back at 3:00.

 

Here is topo InReach view of the hike.
This is the satellite view.
Picture of Bullion Basin, and yes the basin is named for gold bullion.  This whole valley was a gold mining area in 1890’s.
Hank asking do we have to stop NOW, I still want to smell thinks.  When he’s hiking up the trail he pants to stay cool and drags his tongue in the dirt and dust someday I’ll remember to take a picture of his dirt tongue (happy Hank).

Picture of Mt. Rainier from just before the trail reaches Bullion Basin.

 

I have more Mt. Rainier pictures, here is three more 13, 14 & 15.

Have a great day.

Crystal Mt. – Sunday July 27, 2014

Lange Family Retirement weekend continued through today.  As I said Brian was not able to attend and he was missed.  We had a great time and the weather was wonderful.  Saturday morning Jean, Tanya, Mike, Hank and I went up to Sunrise on Mt. Rainier so Mike could say he’d been to Mt. Rainier and the rest of us had not been to Sunrise for a long time.  Christine got here at noon and we all enjoyed a beautiful day and evening around a campfire.

(editorial comment: I’m writing this offline with MS Word and the blogger template, so we’ll see what happens.  I have 4 pictures to put into the blog which are on this laptop and will need to be uploaded to wordpress. We’ll see if they upload by putting them into this document, if they don’t I’ll upload them into the workpress media folder and insert them online.) (Posting through MS Word did not work, I uploaded pictures to wordpress and cut and paste the text.)
I thought this was a nice back drop for a flag picture.
I took a bunch of flag pictures and I liked these the best.
Here is Tanya, Mike and Tanya’s little friend.

I also liked this picture.

I’m going to try and post this now in case it doesn’t work and I have to rewrite it. (didn’t work through MS Word, oh well.)

 

I still have pictures from out Mt. Rainier stay.

Here is 10, 11, and 12.

Crystal Mt. – Thursday July 24, 2014

We are back to Crystal Mt. for Lange family camping weekend.

Campsite and traveling flamingo pictures.

This will be our family ( less Brian) retirement party.  Brian gets to work this weekend at Village Theatre. Tanya will be here tomorrow afternoon, Mike in the evening with Christine and Benedick coming Saturday morning. Weather is going to be mid 80’s. 

Last night was family (less Brian) “Book of Mormon” night, truly a funny musical.  This is the second time to see the musical and a week after Tanya returned from UUUganda, it was a fun evening.

 

Crystal Mt. – Friday July 18, 2014

Hank and I were up early to hike in a new direction.  Up at 6:30 and out the door at 7:00 a.m.  We went to Sand Flats campground and headed up the trail.
We were back at 11:00 8.2 miles.  We went up and back the same trail.  I think the line shows some separation because in the lower section we were on a hill side in some large timber.  As soon as we got a little higher and into some more open areas the tracks stay the same.

Here is the track for the week.  The single line to the left is our track driving to Paradise on the 7th, I was to lazy to filter it out.

The next pictures are from our campsite in parking lot F going up valley and down valley.

It’s Friday evening and we are home for awhile get to see “Book of Mormon” on Wednesday.  By the way my Fitbit has me at over 26000 steps today.

Here are several more Mt. Rainier pictures.

Pictures (7,8,9)

 

Another great day, does seem like we just got back from our normal two week vacation and we should be going back to work on Monday ???? Hope I don’t forget Monday.