Before heading out to Elk Lake I decided a shower was in the cards - here is the result:
Ahhhhhhh, warm water all through the feathers!
Not a promise...
Enough of that! Now to the REAL story...
On our way to Elk (Lava Lake) we saw a few places from my past along the way...
An odd, but awesome covered bridge!
Sportsman's Cafe in Oakridge, OR - closed for some years
(I did not know it closed, and was bummed)...
And the final stop before arriving at Elk Lake! Chemault, OR.
Not sure why, but I always look in a free-standing closet
if they have one in the bathroom - Call Me Weird?
Bigfoot is big in these parts... See me?
Apparently Sasquatch and Sockeye Salmon are at
the top of the food chain!
Almost there!!! Travel partner - Maggie.
And Dad’s leg.
And Mom’s leg.
Burned areas - used to not be able to see that lake.
We wanted to stay at Elk Lake, where my family had gone since I was a wee lad, and get Spot #9, the best spot there, right next to the water. All of the camp ground is first come, first reserved (though I hear it will change to reservations in the next couple years - booo) and there were no spots available when we arrived. So we went to Lava Lake, a few miles down the road, and nice enough in its own right, but nothing really close to the lake (even non-Spot #9s at Elk are closer to the water than all at Lava...).
So we set up camp-er (RV, as it were).
Big camp, enough for 6 tents, bot BARELY two vehicles!
And found the local wildlife to be friendly (which is always scary - at Yosemite the rodents may have The Plague!)...
Bambi, Go to your Mama!
...and we created a path to the pit toilets. For those of you unfamiliar, a Pit Toilet is exactly as it sounds - a pit is excavated, and you sit on a toilet seat above it, and do your business! No flush, no mess (well, at least not for you to clean up!). No water waste, no messy/watery floors when toilets overflow... just awesome!
EDIT - May 6, 2024: so that never made the Blog because I am ADHD and completing things is HARD!
So there it is. And, Here it is since…
I was in Eugene and such for a couple weeks, went to my sister’s place in Southern OR for a couple weeks (was there for the partial eclipse), then picked up my friend, Jama, in LA and headed to Colorado… More later…
