2011 Fathers and Sons campout

We had the annual fathers and sons camp-out last month. It was fun. I almost took Emmy with me, as AJ is a little too young. But I was planning on going on a hike that would have been too much for her little legs, so maybe next year.

We camped on the Columbia, at Windust which is a established camp site. The country side reminded me of Scotland a bit.

It reminds me a little bit of Scotland.

Can you really call it camping when there is playground equipment, manicured grass, electricity, running water, and soap in the bathrooms? At any rate there were campfires and tents.

Our campfire, the morning after. I just like this picture, the colors, the contrast, the texture. I just like it.

Breakfast was provided, and see there where tents.


Peter made me retake this picture after he turned his smore upside down. So here is Peter eating a smore upside down.

There was a hike later on in the day. I took my car through this. Not bad, but I had the lowest vehicle in the group, so I scraped on everything. We also hit a spot that was not exactly level, it tilted to the side 20 degrees or so with dips. But my car made it. I only lost one piece.

We hiked a abandoned rail line. It was so abandoned the rails had be removed, so maybe it was a rail bed. In any case you could find a bit of old ironwork as you hiked along.

Some of the flora, it still reminds me of Scotland.

We hiked to one of the tunnels. Here are two of our group in a nice silhouette.


We spooked a few owls out of their nests. Here is one returning.

Watching the owls.

We hiked back on the road below. Here we are figuring out how to get down there. Really it is easy to do in principal. And in practice it wasn't hard either.

Here is our scoutmaster working his way down.

Another shot of Brian as we get to the road.