I see there is a campground at Buck lake. Can I get in there and camp with a 20 foot travel trailer?
You can get there no problem with one. Not sure if there are sites big enough for it though. There is plenty of camping in that area outside the campground though.
Thanks for the tip.
We (wife, dog and me) went camping last Saturday through Monday morning off the Lost River rd. by Mazama just before the Ballard campground. Had planned to stay through to Tuesday afternoon but we woke to sprinkles of rain Monday morning which was not going to stop all day/night so we packed up and headed home early
Looks like they got .3 inch of rain total Monday.
The only other time we had camped up that way was on the same weekend in 2005 when we stayed at Harts pass one night in a tent then the next night we dropped down and spent the night along the Methow at the lost river cg. An awesome trip I hoped to relive this weekend.
We went up to Harts pass Saturday afternoon where there was about 3-4 inches of snow in the shade. On the way down we went by some real mountain men looking guys in camo setting up to have a bonfire of pallets and plywood. The old skinny guy with the big beard looked either to be the friendliest guy in the world or the scariest. Saw 3 does on the drive down.
On Sunday I awoke to 2 does poking around across the rd from where we were camping. I wanted to explore a "new to us" area off the East and west Chewuch rd. We hiked the Falls Creek Falls trail and drove into Buck lake to scout out that cg. No one there at midday Sunday. The campground could have easily held my 20ft tt but the rd in may have been a tire spinner with my highway tires on the chevy tow vehicle. Nice little lake, tough shore access though as i had to walk out on some driftwood on the marshy shore to make a few dozen casts with my Roostertail spinner. No bites.
On the drive out Monday morning on Hwy 20 between Mazama and Winthrop a mountain biker was riding the trail parallel to the hwy when he suddenly decided he needed to be on the other side of the hwy., he crossed right in front of the truck in front of us as he and I hit the brakes pretty hard. If that guy would have washed the front end out on the wet pavement he would have been squished by the truck in front of us. The truck pulled over at the next rd to i assume confront the mountain biker.
-Saw a half dozen deer crossing the hwy by Loup Loup pass, one being a spike buck.
-There must have been a Subaru convention in Mazama this weekend. Everybody drives them!
-The area we camped at had no pit toilet but was VERY CLEAN! Like, little to NO GARBAGE, NO TOILET PAPER AND HUMAN EXCREMENT in the bushes. Compare this to where we usually go camping this weekend every yr off the Bumping River rd and its shocking how much trash, human waste and toilet paper is everywhere...EVERYWHERE in the Bumping area. I conclude that because this area appears to mainly be used by mountain bikers and horse riders that they are a very clean bunch compared to the folks that camp in the summer along the Bumping River rd.
-First trip pulling the 20ft travel trailer with the 08 Chevy half ton(5.3 engine) i bought this summer. I was a little dissapointed as it got 9.1 mpg. Lot of headwinds though and steep climbs. It shifted a lot too. The transmission got to 219 degrees going over Loup Loup both ways. Was in the 180 region otherwise. I'm going to look into getting a transmission cooler as i imagine that 219 will be 240 in the summer.
-Furnace wouldnt work( I.E., cold wife = unhappy wife). Tore it apart yesterday to find the propane nozzle plugged.