Camping Trip 06

On Labor day weekend, Matt and I took a camping trip to Naches Washington. We left Saturday morning, and arrived at our campsite that afternoon. The spot was perfect! Right along the Teiton River, tree covered and a good distance from other campers. The only problem we had was with the bees that were swarming our food. Saturday night I took Matt to the Dave Matthews concert at the Gorge for his birthday. It was packed full of hippies and liberals, but it was a really good show. You really cant go wrong at the Gorge because there is always a beautiful sunset, and nice views.

We got back to the campsite late that night, and crashed. Matt claims he didnt sleep very good because he kept hearing things in the woods, and felt obligated as the "man" to protect me. MY HERO!! We did live through the night by the way. The next day we hiked up a trail to a place called Iron Stone Mountain. It was a huge rock formation, and I have yet to find out how it came to be. Matt and I climbed to the top, smashing my hand in the process, and ate a lunch on the summit. Because it was Sunday we felt that we should have a mock "Sacrament Meeting" so Matt gave a lesson and we read scriptures on the mountain.

After dinner that night we fell asleep for a "nap" and didnt end up waking up until the morning. We packed up all our camping gear and headed out to the Oregon Coast. We drove a few hours until we got to Cannon Beach, where we ate a lunch and then flew our kite which we named "We're gonna need a bigger boat." Its from Jaws...the kite looks like a shark. Matt explored haystack rock, looking for sea animals in the low tide, and I took pictures of the beach. It was a very nice day when we arrived, and the clouds soon rolled in which made some really cool "tsunami" effects over the ocean.

The trip ended that night, but we had a lot of fun, and everything went really good. We were well prepared with camping supplies (not to mention we were staying 20 minutes from a Fred Meyer) and got to see a lot of really neat places.