The Annual Cabin Trip, 2011

I'm about a month late in making this post, so it will be a bit abbreviated.

Every summer we've lived in the Tri-Cities (a total of 2), we take the first week in August for a cabin trip.  It is partially to line up with my birthday, and it's also still driving season, so it is a good time to stock the place up, and it's easy to get entire families up there.

We went from Tuesday to Saturday.  Nolan, Steffenie, Lexa, Clara, my Dad, my Mom, and brother Brennan came.  A few of the Bambocks came up for part of the week too (Janet and the kids: James, Jacob, and Justin). 

It was a week filled with fishing, motorcycle riding, hiking, playing games and just enjoying the outdoors.  We taught Brennan Agricola and we even stepped it up to the full blown version!  We played some advanced farkle as well.

Lexa and Clara loved fishing!  Clara's idea of fishing is giving me her fishing rod and telling me where to cast it.  Lexa on the other hand, is a great little fisher girl!  She can cast well, get most of her own snags out, and caught quite a few fish!  Lexa, Brennan and I took a motorcycle ride up the river a few miles to a hole called "Big Red".  It's a little before the old cabin site.  She caught 2 really nice fish before I had my first cast in!

Brennan and I got a lot of good motorcycle riding in, and he really seemed to be getting into it.  He would ride the motorcycle up to first base camp and spend some time reading up there.

We also had a lot of fun with the radios.  We had 3 radios and used the cabin as the home base.  We could talk to the cabin from the bear creek trail head and down to the 10th ford.  Also we could talk to anyone up at first base camp as well.  We could probably have gone further up the mountain, but didn't have a chance to try it.  It was fun when someone would call in to report a fish they'd caught, or to find out where people were or when dinner was, etc.

Near we were delivered a letter from our favorite people at the BLM, and they said they noticed the salmon they'd dumped in the river were there and that they were so they were going to change the locks on the gate Friday, August 5th.  A full 10 days before they normal closure date.  This meant we had to drive most of the stuff out on Friday and then hike out on Saturday.  Very annoying.  Again the BLM is tyring very hard to deny us access to our land.  Seems to be consistent theme from them this year.