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| Car Camping at Big Lake, OR | |
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| no partners | | This was the second annual reunion at Big Lake - Oregon for 8 friends from Oregon and Washington who had gone on a rafting trip together on the Owyhee River in south eastern Oregon in May 2017. [ photoset ] I got notification of the planned reunion in August and it conflicted with my planned 2 week visit to the Eastern Sierras. So I just tacked on an extra week to allow time to drive up to Oregon, camp with my friends for 2 days and then visit my Grandson in Sparks, NV, for 2 days before starting my 2 week tour of the Eastern Sierras. Our reunion was in the large Willamette Forest Big Lake campground on the north shore of the lake. Many of the campsites have great views of Mt Washington across the lake. I arrived 2 days before the others to stake out the same sites we had used last year. [ photoset ] While waiting for the others to show up I went on a hike to the nearby Patjens Lakes. [ photoset ]
The 2 day reunion was a success with beautiful clear weather. We had the entire campground to ourselves which was a good thing. We didn't have any problems with this rowdy group of ex-Oregon State Univ football players from the late 1960s disturbing other campers. I'm the only non-football veteran, non-OSU graduate of the group but am well tolerated having been friends with 4 members of the group for over 20 years. After 2 days of enjoying the comradery of this group I started on the drive to Sparks, NV, stopping one night to enjoy the peaceful quiet of the Willow Creek Campground [41.012503 -120.830185] on HW139 in northern CA. |
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