Tuesday, August 20, 2013

I wanted to add this quickly. We have done a couple of camping trips this summer. We don't really do anything special when we camp. We just go up to the mountains and find a national forest service roads that are as remote and unused as possible and search them until we find one with a view. So far we have found a couple of great spots to camp.

At camp we laze around, cook, drink, laze around some more. Occasionally we even hike or bike.

Last weekend I took the bikes along. Akiko didn't join me on the rides, but she very graciously played shuttle driver for the weekend. We were supposed to do a ride together on the last day, but the dogs were so worn out, we just did a couple of easy water fall hikes instead. Yeah, that's right. The dogs were too tired to do much more than lazy hiking to beautiful PNW waterfalls.

Just arrived at Camp:





A few minutes later, the dogs and I snuck out for our first shuttle run of the weekend. Great way to start off. 10 miles of downhill single track.

View the next morning without sun:



View once the sun started coming up:
Looking back up at Camp:

Later that day the dogs and I did the Alpine Trail from top to bottom. Great single track ride. 14 miles of mostly downhill through old growth. I will try to add a picture of that later. Below is a shot of a meadow that we crossed about halfway down. It is not exciting or spectacular, but it was cool to just bomb through!.

Handlebar point of view later on down the trail:

The next morning we took things even slower, but eventually I got some of this brewed up to get us moving.

Then we went waterfalling. The first stop was Pinnard Falls. Kaibu seems to have a little Lab in her afterall.
Overview of the falls:


There were also cool old trees to play on:



Then it was on to Spirit Falls:


Franny was pretty wiped out. She usually does not sit still this long.


The moss was so green and lush.



Then we headed home with a side stop for an OK BBQ sandwich in Cottage Grove.