September-October, 2021
We had been spending so much time away from camp … hiking in the wild country around the campground, seeing the town, discovering the Smoke jumper location, walking through forest fire aftermath, finding lovely lodges and horses, trying to avoid bear scat(!), and simply out exploring … that we decided to hang out around our trailers this one afternoon. So I walked around and took a few snapshots of interesting things in the campground. This is an excellent campground and I will likely be back.
In the video below, you’ll see where I’m camped and then see a few interesting neighbor trailers. My rig is first in the video below, on the very far left, then to the right is a lovely Airstream trailer, then further to the right is, yes, another Escape trailer that had just arrived. They stayed pretty much to themselves but we chatted a tiny bit and they were awfully nice folks. Just past them (further away, sort of behind them in the video) was a Scamp (another molded fiberglass trailer, like Escape trailers are) … and then further to the right were my friends and their white SUV and their Escape trailer. I’ve been camping for six summers now and almost never do I see even one other Escape trailer … today there were three Escapes, and a Scamp, and an Airstream. And we were all gathered together in this one corner of the campground. Pretty cool. 🙂
[Sorry for the jerky video. I need to practice, don’t I?]
And then I simply walked around the campground. One interesting thing they do here is that they decorate their electrical distribution boxes.
A bear! Scat bear, go, get away you bear!
A monster Moose.
A handsome Heron.
Some frisky Squirrels.
I took the photo below just to show how empty this campground was, even in great weather in September, it was mostly empty. But also I noted how far apart most of the campsites were. That was really nice.
And then, as I stood there looking at the scenery, I noticed the brown “lumps” in the lawn right in front of me. I looked more closely and discovered a deer and two fawns who were having a little late afternoon rest right in the middle of the campground. Obviously they didn’t much care about humans here since this was THEIR home. 🙂
I walked around the entire campground and saw other interesting things, but mostly just regular campground things. As I was walking back around to my campsite, I passed the campsite of my friends who were here with me, in their trailer (photo below). Notice in the very VERY right lower corner of the photo below that there are some trees with black/white trunks … Aspens?
Immediately behind my friends’ trailer, right in front of those Aspen trees was yet another deer having a little late afternoon munch. She paid no attention to me. I liked that.
And then ten feet further on, I discovered this (below). My truck/trailer is on the right … a new rig had just this afternoon pulled in, yet another Airstream. We sure seemed to have the “corner” on molded travel trailers. A molded fiberglass Casita trailer had been my neighbor the first night or two. So far no Olivers yet, no Bolars yet, but there’s still another day.
Just behind my trailer was another perfect campsite (below) with another perfect view (maybe even better view) of the lake than I had. #41 … I have that noted for future reference. 🙂
And finally, I managed to complete the tour and get back to my big white truck and to Towhee the Trailer. They are always such a welcome sight when I’ve been out for a long and distant exploration or even just a little walk-about.
