Camping with Higher Attitude

Ever since camping at Twin Lakes last year, we could not wait to get back. But we had to wait, wait for the snow to melt and wait for a nice fall weekend. The wait was worth it, just take a look.

Here is our little base camp.

Picking blueberries on our way up to Winchester Mountain.

A little glimpse of the 360 degree breathtaking view from the top.

Can you find our tent?

You might need a zoom, but it's down there. For Shawn and I, the highlight from the peak was the view, for the boys, it was the old fire lookout and the dogs that greeted them.

It was just about the perfect weekend if you omit the part of some fellow campers staying up in the wee hours of the morning being loud, obnoxious and using a "not very nice vocabulary". Yeah, it sure does not match the pristine and serene surroundings, but pollution is everywhere, unfortunately. On the upside, we took the rain fly off the tent and were able to admire the beautiful star filled sky and even saw some shooting stars and other interesting moving lights while we were kept up by "the bozos". We were even awoken later by the bright moon that shone right above us. There was no way to turn that light off, which was OK, it was such beautiful night and it was great to be able to appreciate it.

P. S. After I typed this , I heard in the news that people had seen a slow moving "object" in the sky, which astronomers believe to be a meteor. Now the mystery of what we saw is solved. Kind of neat, since it's usually the morning after that I hear of the cool things that appeared on the sky.

I could not think of a better way to spend these days. Surrounded by mountains, but best of all, surrounded by the family I love.