Monday, August 3, 2009

Priest Lake '09

The Priest Lake '09 crew..... Jon and Even in good spirits on the hike!
Nathan Brown, still smiling :)
another strem switchback......
picking huckleberries....yumm!
Annaliese, ready to hike to upper Priest :)
Me, and Zach, ready to go!
John and his 'map'....oh, I thought we were on this other stream.....
The crew, ready to hike down the river bed.
Our totally awesome campsite! Right on the beach at N. lower Priest!
Joel, horsein' around by our mansion tent :)

John and Jon Naught
Huckleberry pancakes. The kids talked me into putting peanut butter and chocolate on them :) Interesting mixture!
Joel man :)
This year we went to Priest Lake to camp. John's old stompin' grounds. His grandparents owned a cabin on the lake for years and he spent many summer days here. Jon and Even Naught, and the Brown family joined us. We had an awesome time!!! We ended up with an increadible campspot, right on the lake and hung out loungin' and the kids played in the raft. The second day was mostly taking a "John Goldsworthy" style hike, which we thought was taking us to upper Priest, but after two hours into the hike, with no signs of getting closer, most of the 7 kids, infant and couple mom's thought it would be best to turn around....we did have a great time, even though I will forever give John lots of crap for it.
What a great time with fun friends....hopefully we'll get to do it again next year!

1 comment:

Natasha said...

We'll be there on Friday. . . My grandparents have camped in that same spot years ago. Fun!