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Published: August 1st 2005
Well, it is the end of week 2 and everything is still great except for one thing. Bret's camera broke. Yep, broke. There is a dial on the back that is the main control of most of its functions and it has broke. How and why we don't know. The dial stopped working while we were in Glacier, but he was still able to use it until the hike in the North Cascades. We were coming back from a hike and he wanted to photograph sunset. I had him take a record shot of the two of us and B-dawg with Mt. Baker in the background first and after that photo it automated itself to large jpeg and won't work. Because the dial is broke there is no way to take it off. For you photographers, you know that large jpeg just won't cut it. That is what led us to Bellingham, WA for the next few days to 2 weeks depending on what he has to do with the camera. Chances are we will have to ship it out and wait and wait and wait. Quite crappy, but Bellingham is a great place to spend 2 weeks or so.
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anyways, as far as the trip goes everything has been great. We left Spokane and ended up in the southwest of the North Cascades. We stayed at the craziest rv park, Clarks Clabins and RV Park. We showed up late tuesday night and as we entered the rv park we were overcome by bunnies. We had never seen so many bunnies in our lives in one place. There had to have been 150 just hopping, walking and laying under cars, in the road and in the grass. People were sitting outside throwing bread to them. Apparently, this place is known for their bunny population. We set up Harvey and called it a night. The next day we ate at this little restaurant called the Eatery. It is owned by a little old lady named Tootsie who is 90 years old. She is absolutley the cutest thing. She still works in the restaurant cooking, waitressing and cleaning up. She was awesome. We did a hike up to Pyramid lake, which the book described as beautiful and after we made our way up to it, it ended upt being a log filled pond. Not at all exciting and quite disappointing. The next
day we did a hike up to Cascade Pass which was absolutely beautiful. We could see many glaciers and an open valley filled with streams and tarns. A much better hike than the day before. We spent 2 days in that end of the park hiking and then we headed up to the Mt. Baker area of the park. This park is so different from any of the other parks that we have been to. It is less populated and their are no sevices close to the park. Usually, there are convenience stores, souvenir shops and restaurants, but not in the North Cascades. The road access is very limited as well. If you really want to get inside the park you have to backpack. It is gorgeous but very limiting. We definitley recommend the Mt. Baker area. We did a hike to Iceberg lake. No icebergs but a beautiful lake with Mt. Baker in the backdrop. We actually were able to take Edges Sir Bierstadt Bocephus - The All Terrain Pug on this hike and he loved it. It was 5 miles, which he did probably about 10 miles if you include his galavanting off trail and the loops around
us. He did great and was exhausted at the end.
I forgot to mention in the last blog that I had the opportunity to hop on the back of a Jackalope in Dubois, WY. He was huge and didn't mind me getting my picture taken with him. 😊
We are now in Bellingham and we are going to make the best of it. We plan on doing some sea kayaking, mountain biking (suppose to be great here), head up to Vancouver, BC and maybe take the ferry to Victoria, BC.
Hope you are all doing well and having a great summer.
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Scott & Kim
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Camera Broke? Bummer!
Sorry to hear about the camera! Sounds like the fun continues! Go to Victoria for sure! Its cool!