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1222 days ago
July 19th by Emma Today we are heading towards Portland. I think that this will be fun because there is lots of shopping in Portland. I really like to shop because I love new stuff. I think that we are also going to go to a fish hatchery to see fish climb up ladders. This will be very interesting. July19th by Barb Today, we visited Bonneville Dam in Cascade Locks, Oregon. We saw the fish ladders - built to help the fish - slamon, lamprey and strugeon - get around the Dam to spawn. We also visited the hatchery where there is a 450 pound, 6 foot sturgeon named Herman. Herman is huge and I wouldn't want to meet him while swimming in a river or lake. In the afternoon, we drove up to Mt Hood and found a campsite on a pretty lake named Trillium. Mt. Hood looms over the lake, and at night you can see the ski snow groomer going up and down the Mountian preparing the snow for the next day's skiing. It is hot here so it is hard to imagine that there ...
1232 days ago
Eli – July 14 Today we are staying at a RV Park in Bozeman. There is a water park (but it is small). They also have a swimming pool and a miniature golf course. The last 3 days we were in Yellowstone National Park (more to come). Emma – July 14 Today, we went to the Museum of the Rockies. I think that the museum was pretty cool because there were many exciting and interesting exhibits. My favorite exhibit was the Dinosaur exhibit because there was a real T-REX skull! There were also a lot of other real bones! I also liked the NASA exhibit which was a RV trailer that showed us lots of cool space things, facts and a movie about Mars and the Earth. They let us touch a moonstone from the moon. There was a movie about technology and what they (NASA) plan to do in the future. I thought that it was very interesting. Another exhibit that I liked was the Pioneer and Early Settlers exhibit. There were some very practical houses. ...
1237 days ago
Sunday July 9 th (by Barb) Altitude 8,701 Galena Peak in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area on our way to Sun Valley/Ketchum We stayed at a campground at Pettit Lake for the past two nights. It was a beautiful little (well not so little) lake nestled in the Sawtooth Mountains. Yesterday, we took a 5 mile hike into the wilderness area – it was a pretty walk through a wooded area that followed the lake and hugged the bottom of some very large granite peaks. The kids complained a bit about having to hike, but the scenery was awesome and the wildflowers were plentiful, but the dive-bombing flies that followed us along the trail I could have done without. We turned around at the point were the trail crossed a swift moving stream. Pettit Lake was nice for swimming and there were dirt roads that the kids could ride around on their bikes. We saw all sorts of dead animals and birds on the roads. Everyone enjoyed the campfires because we roasted ...
1244 days ago
I drive the Yak. 400 miles today across Oregon. Not a ton of stuff between bend and Burn to see. Mile after mile of olive green chaperal mixed in with tall yellow grass, a few short pine trees all between fingers and buttes of old lava flows. In the rear view mirror the 3 Sisters, 3 10,000 foot peaks, breatheren of Mt Lassen, Shasta, Hood, Ranier and the rest of the Cascade volcanoes. Sitting around the camp fire last night with the kids (Barb snoozing) we decided these were "pissed off" mountains. Passive-aggressive, building layer over layer of mud over the years and then blowing their tops. Still pretty to look at... big old triangles that can be seen mile after mile as you drive through these 4000 foot plateaus. Lots of driving... lots of time to wonder how did these peaks get here? Passed through Crater Lake yesterday, another surley bretheren of the Cascade bunch. This one imploded to creat a masive hole with an eruption 100x greater than Mt St Helens. How ...
1244 days ago
Yesterday, we saw Crater Lake, a big beautiful, very blue lake, created when Mt. Mazama erupted and collapsed into itself oer 7,700 years ago. 'The cliffs above the lake are nearly 2000 feet high and very steep, and Eli was sure that he could throw a snowball into the lake, but he didn't try because the Ranger was hanging around and he didn't want any trouble from her. We camped at Diamond Lake, nearby Crater Lake, at a spot that was very scenic and spacious. The kids had fun building sand sculptures at the beach and Phil got to ride his bike along the 11 mile bike trail. Today, we are doing a long drive across Eastern Oregon to Boise, Idaho. There are vast streches of land with nothing man-made on it for as far as the eye can see. I imagie that on some of this land, no man/woman has ever even set a foot. And then, in the middle of nowhere, we pass a lone tree with about 50 pairs of shoes hanging in it. Very funny.
