Cody wanted to go out to Banks Lake and scout out some campgrounds good for the boat and look for places that we could just camp on the shore without having to pay $35 a night.
Side note--since when is it almost as much to sleep on the ground as it is to get a room at a Motel 6?! Throw in the Discover Pass and the National Parks passes you need and you're looking at $100 to camp for a weekend, not to mention the gas to get there in a loaded truck hauling a boat. Ridiculous.
I digress...
The adventure: I first have a disclaimer. Despite what I am about to say and being in a car for about 10 hours, I enjoyed the trip--but I had to give Cody crap about it. I was told hiking and possibly snowshoeing would be involved, and neither happened : )
It's about a 3 hour drive to Banks Lake, so leaving around 6:30 was the plan. Leaving actually happened at 8:15. Then we were (a little bit too) excited to eat breakfast at the Snoqualmie Casino...only to find out they don't start the buffet until 10am. What the heck?! Already "running late", we found a little restaurant in North Bend that was actually pretty delicious.
Along the way we passed by a lake that was frozen over and this had to be investigated. The conversation went a little something like this:
Keane: Do you think that ice is pretty thick?
Cody: I don't know, would you like to attempt to traverse it?
Keane: Yeah lets do it, we might lower morale and die of cholera though.
Oh Oregon Trail, how you have touched our lives forever <3 hahaha
 |
| Testing it out... |
 |
| I had to join in the fun too, though Cody didn't want me taking my camera out on the ice : P |
 |
| Yes, they are running back : P |
They really did want to try to get to the rock in the middle, but I told them I had the keys and I wasn't coming in after them ; )
A few hours later we finally come to the Shell Station/Big Wally's Tackle Shop, the spot where knowledge had been said to abound about where to fish and where to camp. Well, Big Wally had the day off so after Cody made Keane smell some fish bait that he claimed smelled like limes but really was more like something that died and had been locked in a tupperware container for days in the sun, we headed off to Steamboat Rock.
We "hiked" up some rocks to see the other side of the lake, found a couple of campgrounds that had signs saying "no overnight camping allowed" so we were confused as to why they were even called campgrounds. Instead of going back south to Moses Lake and Potholes, we headed back north and drove by the Grand Coulee dam. That was pretty cool, I had never been by there before, but for whatever reason I didn't take a picture of it. Oh yeah that's right, we didn't stop and I was hungry and sulking that I wasn't going to get to snowshoe...and pictures through car windows are crappy.
 |
| At the top of our "hike" to see the rest of Banks Lake |
The plan was to stop at Lake Chelan and look around there for some camping, but in our hunger we missed the turn and didn't realize we missed the turn until we were practically in Wenatchee. Oh well, life goes on and there was food in Wenatchee : P
13 hours after we left we made it back to Tacoma...with a slight idea of where we want to camp this summer *lol*
This was a minor Cody and Keane experience--I'll let them have the broken down in Idaho and the "there's no cougars, but there's mountain lions in them there hills" trips to themselves : )
No comments:
Post a Comment