We left early Friday morning to head out to the Okanogan National Forest and snag a spot. We arrived about 4.5 hours later and after a couple more hours of exploring, we found the spot right on the Chewuch river, it was beautiful! Ethan did remarkably well for spending so much time in the car seat. Then our friends Chuck and Robin came up later that night. We spent four adventurous days and three freezing nights. We did some exploring and shooting, a visit to Winthrop and Twisp, more exploring, relaxing and altogether enjoying each others company.
A few highlights of interest:
- Stopped at a street fair in Twisp and had the best peaches any of us had ever eaten!
- Saw 3 big moose!!
- Went exploring to see Billy Goat Pass and ended up seeing free range cows in the middle of the forest, much beautiful scenery, a mine and an amazing mining cabin near the trailhead built in 1949.
- Ate smores around the fire while we watched the millions of bright stars and the bats swooping to catch bugs...
- Shot Thomas' shotgun, was my (Talia) first time shooting a gun... can we say sore shoulder!!
- Stopped off at Washington Pass look out, Ross Lake and Lake Diablo to see God's stunning creation!
- We stopped at the actual town of Diablo, which felt more like a ghost town, as we saw cars and houses but not one single person on a sunny summer afternoon...
- Thomas and I continued the trip home to discover Baker Lake, a 25 mile dead-end road complete with an amazing dam and quite a few future camping sites along the way.
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