High 77 here and 87 at the start of the ball game at Safeco.
After a week at home we ventured out to explore Ranger Creek. Yes this is the same place we have been going to all summer. Most if not all the state parks are now reservation only from May 15 to September 15 and reservations can be made nine months in advance. This is great when you want to plan ahead. Over the last ten years starting in October one of the first things I did at 7:00 a.m. every Friday was to make weekend camping reservations starting for the next May. We went to a verity of places; lot of Fort Flagler, Silver Springs, Dosewalips, and Penrose almost every weekend. During the winter, early spring and fall these places are nice however the summers they are a pain. The worst part is kids and parents how walk through other people’s campsites. Not just close to the site but through the site as in between the motorhome and picnic table or fire ring because this is a straight line between where they are and where they want to go. This does not go well with Hank and most of these people look at Hank like he has done something wrong.
We started going to Crystal Mountain a couple of years ago and we usually had the whole lower parking lot to ourselves. Now at Ranger Creek the closest people during the week range from 50 yards of heavy forested area to a half mile and some days miles to the next person. On the weekends it is 30 yards between campsites.
This is the closest site next to us.
This is the one just north of that.
There are several busy weekends, mountain bikes, 50 mile run, horse group. Still a nice place to camp.
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