September 1-5, 2025
Ah, another wonderful camping trip. This is my third camping trip of 2025. I didn’t get out camping as early in 2025 as I have in previous years because of some necessary dental work, quite a bit in fact! But that got tidied up nicely. And then I finally went camping.
But that meant 2025 was not a year of many camping trips, sigh. Here’s to next year, 2026!
BUT, I did have some wonderful camping trips in 2025 … as you have already seen from my first two camping trips. This next camping trip, to Wynoochee, is my third camping trip of 2025. Two more are coming after this one. One of these days I might catch up on posting my camping trips but don’t hold your breath. 🙂
For this camping trip, I headed up into the lower reaches of the Olympic Mountains. The RED paved road ends even before reaching the campground … only forest service gravel roads after that. It’s so quiet up there.
I’ve been here before (2017 Coho Campground at Wynoochee). For this 2025 trip, when I looked for available campsites online, the only available campsite for this trip was the same one I had the last time I was here. So I knew the spot well and I grabbed it!
It felt so good to back into campsite #39 again. It felt just like home.
The red roller was used to lift one side of the trailer just one inch so it was level from side to side.
Then I placed yellow stoppers around the tires on the other side of the trailer to make sure the trailer wouldn’t roll in either direction accidentally. Then I unhitched the truck from the trailer and used the jack on the front of the trailer to level the trailer front to back.
And then I was home! The trailer door is opened and Little Towhee gets to see the world.
As soon as she got a good look at the surrounding forest, she knew right where she was. She even said, “Ann this is my favorite place!” And she hopped and flew right over to the same picnic table we had before, jumped up on the table (just like last time), and sat there listening to and talking with ALL the birds in the surrounding trees.
In fact, she didn’t want to come back into the trailer for a long time. So I just left the doors open (the solid door and the screen door) so she could come and go as she pleased.
This campsite doesn’t have electricity, and it has lots of trees around it, so I set up my remote solar panel that helps out when the roof solar panel is in the shade.
And then throughout the day I move the remotely wired solar panel so it gets as much sun as possible. This system has worked perfectly for eight years, 2018-2025, and should continue for many years more, requiring absolutely no maintenance.
After getting the trailer, and the truck, and Little Towhee settled, I finally sat for a bit as well and simply enjoyed the surroundings.
Eventually, late in the afternoon, I took a walk through the campground (photo below). If you look back at the first day of that 2017 Wynoochee camping trip, you’ll see that I took a walk late that first afternoon too. What I didn’t realize until I got home from this 2025 trip and looked at my photos was that I took this late afternoon walk on the same path in 2025 that I had in 2017, and there are dozens and dozens of paths! AND, I stopped and took a photo at almost the exact same spot! What are the chances?
How pretty it is here! I finished my short walk and then I returned to the trailer for my evening supper.
I thought I had seen pretty much everything there was to see here, when I was here in 2017, but I found new things. Stay tuned. 🙂 Thanks for coming along!