ROSS LAKE

 As I go through the many pictures that have been filed on this computer all the memories associated with each picture come rushing back as I try to remember specific places and time.    This picture was taken from our camp at Lightning Creek Campground on Ross Lake sometime in the late 1980's.   The view is looking north toward Canada, which was about 10 to 20 from our location.   That is my son and daughter on a log with poles making there way out across the lake.   My sister and her husband were in camp with me when this picture was taken.   My sister arranged this trip and rented a boat that took us to the north end of the lake where we backpacked 5 to 10 miles to this campground.   We stayed for 3 or 4 days, until we had to go back to meet the boat for our return trip to civilization or did we backpack all the way back to Highway 20 in the North Cascades National Park?   From this camp we would take day hikes.  One hike that stands out in my memory was up a trail to Desolation Peak where we came across a blue berry patch or was it huckleberries?    As I was picking berries I could hear somebody on the other side of the berry patch picking.   I walked around the patch to see who was there and to my surprise it was a bear.  The bear did not notice me, so I slowly made my way back to the others informing them of the bear as we departed back to camp.   Thinking back that was a big bear and may have been a Grizzly.    

There are many more pictures and many more stories to be told--stay tuned.