Sunday, September 13, 2009

a 'trillium'-times less crowded!

We set off rather late in the afternoon on Friday to find a camp site at Trillium Lake near Mt. Hood (who happens to be quite bald looking this time of the year! *gasp!*)... only to find that the campground was FULL... so we opted for the over-flow campground (which happened to be CLOSED but with the gate swung wide open and a few other happy camp-ers setting up camp). We didn't have the lake view, but we got a flowin' creek! It was actually quite awesome. Funny, it was called "Still Creek" b'cuz there wasn't anything still about it. :D Sadly we only got to camp for one night due to other obligations back in town (thankfully a short and beautiful 1.25 hr. ride) ...I will say more about this lovely time if I can grab the chance, but for now I just want to get some photos up for you all to enjoy.

We found a nice private place along the creek (within our HUGE campsite) to set up our tent:
Our campsite was surrounded by huckleberry bushes. They were delicious in the oatmeal Saturday morning. :)
A late morning sun on the creek by our tent:
A not-so-snow-capped Mt Hood:
A hike around Trillium Lake:
The 'giraffe/ostrich'-like tree we found along the way:

The End: (professional tent-cleaning *crumb nazi? maybe ;) ).

2 comments:

Vanessa said...

Gorgeous scenery!

Kindermusik With Camille said...

Wow!! these pictures are beautiful!