Category: Ranger Creek

Ranger Creek Air Strip

Some of the things I like about camping and hiking in the hills ( in my motorhome ).
My comfortable bed and it is not on the ground.  Getting out of bed by placing your feet down onto carpet is no comparison to having to get up off the ground.  Crawling around on your knees to get dressed and out of the tent.  Always a joy to put your shoes on while sticking your feet out the tent door so dirt does not get into the tent.
Not having to hike a half mile just to dig a hole in bunch of rocks to deposit what is left of the previous day’s breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Things I don’t miss:
Cooking on a fire
Cooking on the ground, when using a stove
Walking a quarter to half a mile for a drink of cold water
Washing dishes standing on your head
Washing up in a bowl that is 6 inch across and 2 inches depth

I do miss multiple night hikes. We used to do 8 night hikes once a year. In my young years we would go 50+ miles.  Later we would cover 30 to 35 miles.  This would mean shorter distance each day carrying a pack and more afternoon and evening exploration hikes.  Dinner at five, with dishes done by6:00 and we would have until 9:00 or 9:30 to explore.

I do miss hiking one direction ( not having to walk back however far I hike from the motorhome. )

Today was not much of a hiking day.  Hank and I got an early start however it did not last very long.  Hank was tired, he was walking along side me or mostly trailing behind. After about half a mile we turned around and called it a day.  We are both getting older.

Today’s helicopter:
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Got the satellite TV dish set up this morning.  Last week I had changed our physical location to Crystal Mountain which is only a few miles away and in the same zip code as we are now.  Matter of fact when Google maps originally setting up zip codes 98022 (Enumclaw) was attached to the physical location of Crystal Mountain Ski Resort.  A lot of databases are still this way.  Most medical search databases when you search for doctors within 5 miles of 98022 the results are NONE.  When you change the search to 30 miles all the doctors in Enumclaw show up including the hospital.  Once a mistake is made it is very difficult to get it changed.  Anyway we have local Seattle-Tacoma TV stations coming down from the satellite.

Hank and I got out for a hike this afternoon.  Walked the trail along the river ( White River ) for 4 miles and then came back.  We were in heavy forest the whole time so it was really nice and shady with a dirt trail the whole way.  We saw two other groups out hiking in the nice weather.  I took my InReach GPS however being down inside a large stand of trees it only was able to transmit our location once during the three hours we were on the trail.  When we got back to camp I set the GPS out in the open so it could transmit it’s data, it will be interesting to see where it thinks we were. I also set a waypoint ( #10 ) for a point of reference.  This waypoint is after we had turned left away from the river for 0.6 miles and also our turn around point.
Another beautiful with a high of 85.
Hank was tired when we got home.

We are the only people here tonight, nice and quiet.

Army helicopter came into the landing strip this evening.  He came from the north, landed south to north, set for several minutes, took off north, came around and left going to the south.

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