Camping

So the first camping trip of the season was last weekend. It was not planned much. We left town at around 7:30pm and we arrived after dark to our campsite. The campsite was on route to where we really wanted to be which was at Chehalis lake. Apparently the road was washed out plus it was really dark so we decided to camp along the way. In the morning we were all setup and didn't feel like moving. It turned out to be a pretty sweet spot.


There was a nice hill around the place where we could throw frisbees, beach balls, softballs and baseballs...oh and lots of rocks. None of them ended up hitting Rob's truck luckily.


We also went on a few hikes and discovered that we were at the base of a giant tree planter's block (plot of land where they plant new trees). Because that trees weren't very old, we could see all the way to the top of the block. I thought it might be a good idea to hike up to it and get a view, so the next day Greg, Gordo and I made the trek. It took really long because of massive underbrush but it was a really good expedition. You see there was no trail, so it goes beyond the word 'hike'.


We came down from the block by going around the edge in the older growth forest which had very little underbrush. Back near camp we found the other three chopping a log to be able to move it out of the way. Oh, and Rob had chopped his arm with the hatchet.


We also played a lot of board/card games well camping because it rained a lot. We played risk more than one night well huddled under the tarp hanging off the back of Rob's truck.


One night we struggled to find dry pieces of wood everywhere we could to actually make a decent fire to roast marshmallows. It was quite the activity, searching under rocks and large piles of wood using a flashlight. Pulling bark off the underside of logs.