This year, we went to Lacamas Lake in Washington state where we met friends Dan and Vanessa and their kids, Charles and Ella. Barb and I enjoyed the hike, but I think we were in the minority, joined only by Vanessa and (maybe) Charles. Dan was cold, Suzanne said the air hurt to breathe (it was pretty cold), Ella's legs hurt, and Elizabeth's list of complaints would take too much time to type. I guess if you put Charles in the hike-positive group, it was fifty/fifty.
But we got it done. Then, after separating from our friends, we went to lunch at a burger place in beautiful Camas, WA. When we got home, we all got under the covers in Barb's and my bed, and read and rested and got cozy. It was a great kickoff to what I think is going to be a great year.
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| The light was low on the horizon, leading to some very pretty pictures. |
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| The photo is imperfect: Suzanne looks like an unconscious person with a fragment of candy cane in her mouth; we are both out of focus. But look at that background! |
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| (L-R) Dan, Charles (barely visible behind Dan), Vanessa, Suzanne, Barb, and Ella. Elizabeth is either with me, or sitting on a rock moping. |
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| Frost on an oxidized bolt head on the bridge. |
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| This is the spillway beyond the dam. A cool feature of this hike is that you get to walk over the dam, which was upgraded from timber and mud to concrete in 1923. It powers the Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Camas, WA. |
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| About ten minutes into our hike we stopped for snacks and hot cocoa. Elizabeth was already flagging. Needless to say, it didn't get better from here. |
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| Vanessa, Barb and Suzanne looking over the lake. |
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| A mood. |
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| Suzanne is a pretty cool dude. |
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