After seven months we finally were able to make a camping trip with our motorhome. This first trip for 2021 was Shirt Tail Creek campground on Sugar Pine Lake.
Ben joined our family on December 7, 2005. He was just over seven weeks old having been born on October 18th. His father was pure bred golden retriever who lived a couple doors down from his mom who was half yellow lab and half golden.
Ben’s photo history after his first year:
Early October is the best time to see the fall colors along the eastern slope of the Sierra so we’ve been wanting to do this trip ever since our last trip in May of 2019 to Lone Pine.
We managed to get a reservation for a new campsite at East Meadows campground for the first week in October just before they closed. With cancellations due to Covid and fires, plus an abnormally large number of people camping this year,
This year we did our annual birthday hike in mid-September 2020. A very strange and challenging year with Covid, California fires, racial unrest in the country and the presidential election.
Due to the Covid and lately because of forest fires and excessive smoke, this was the first time we got to camp at Jackson Meadows this year. May be the last time because my favorite site is all booked up thru the close in early October.
On August 10th we ventured back to Loon Lake to meet up with a bunch of friends.
Our second camping trip this year was back to Loon Lake. Site #16, right across from our friends Gary and Cheryl. They camp in site #15 giving us direct access to the lake.
Our first trip this year. The year of Covid-19. We went to Lake Davis for the first time in about five years with Mike and Vicki, and all of our dogs. Its on a first come basis so we were truly blessed in finding such great sites in the middle Read More