Colonial Creek Lake Diablo Washington

[mrwall1]

Well we just got back from our first Trip in our little Hitch & Haul trailer! We come back with a couple of lists of things to change, things to take, things to not take! lol! but it was a lot of Fun....3 days no cell phone or Internet! was great but I still kept pulling my phone out to look!

Here we are getting ready and packed to go!



The First run went very well, we had no issues, just not used to the little bit of clunking as the receiver and Hitch bounce around... a few pot holes gave us a little scare but the little 4.0 pulled the trailer great, as we started to climb the North cascades, the jeep started to get a little hot... so not sure if it would of had problems going over the pass...

we drove about 140 miles, in 2 1/2 hours. Found site 95 $12 a night, no hook ups, but bathrooms and water faucets and Dumpsters not too far away... Even had a bear box! no bears close but lots of little camp robbers around!





We Set up the Kitchen, We still need to put a sink in, and definitely a set of Struts, opening and closing a lot with the Zip poles gets old fast!!


Night time was nice and comfy, we bought two Queen size 3" memory foam mattress's from Costco for $109 a piece, put on top of each other, very soft!! We didn't have a dvd player, so I took my laptop, the battery was good for about 1 movie!


The Privacy Shelter was great for changing, getting cleaned up... and good for an emergency restroom... Definitely going to work on the last detail!!


The Fantastic Fan, used all the power up in our deep cycle battery the first night.... luckily I took an extra car battery, for the 2nd night, and it did great, so not sure what is going on there... the problem should of been reversed...

We went Kayaking, the lake was a little windy... it is a huge lake, this is only the small section of the lake, when we got down towards the bigger part... the water was really rough... so we turned around and came back... the ride on top kayak paddled really hard through it.... but the mountain views were amazing!!













It was a nice camp Ground over all




This poor guy in 1960s pickup pulling a tent trailer... was a good reminder to have a fire extinguisher in the rigs.... the truck and all the camping gear burned all up... the tent trailer looked alright....


Good to be home... might need a lift kit! and backing it up into the garage...




thanks for looking!!
Mike and Dodi

[teamredjeep]

Looks like you had a great trip, thanks for sharing.

[KCStudly]

Awesome trip and great mountain pics!

Looks like a fabulous destination.

Thanks for sharing.

[Fyddler]

I love that area, used to hike into Ross Lake when I was young, and spent a week working at Ross Dam, riding a boat up Lake Diablo every morning to the Dam. Such a beautiful area for sure!