No More Soft Tacos

It has been said that tent campers in grizzly country are just soft tacos for the bears. We have avoided camping in some very beautiful areas such as Red Lodge and the Boulder River valley for just that reason. Well, we are soft tacos no more! We are now the proud owners of a 2015 19ft Jayco Jayflight camper. 

Our very own "private" riverfront property

Woodbine Falls

We bought the camper the weekend before our "city-girl" daughter came to visit, so this was our first chance to get it out. We got to Woodbine Campground just after noon on Friday, so we had several campsites from which to choose. We snagged one right on the river and set up camp. Then it was off on a hike to one of our favorite waterfalls. It was only a four-mile hike, so we were back in plenty of time to start dinner. After supper, we played a game of cribbage (I won - shock, shock!) and roasted marshmallows. 

I can't say that we were up early on Saturday morning: we slept way too well for that. But by 10:30, we were packed up and down the road to the Stillwater River Trailhead. We have been there several times, but had never made it as far as Souix Charley Lake. Now we have. It is three and a half miles to the lake, so we ate our lunch overlooking the tranquil (though not still) water. It's not really a lake, at least not to a Michigan girl. It's more of a wide spot in the river. But it is pretty, nonetheless. 

 Flood Creek

I had read about another waterfall around mile 5 on this hike, so we continued up the trail. There was a waterfall just after we left the lake, but it would have taken some serious bush-whacking to get to. We couldn't even get a picture through the trees. At mile 6, we came to the bridge over Flood Creek. It was a lovely little creek, but not a waterfall by any stretch of the imagination, so we turned back. 

We got back to the truck at about 5 pm. This is where we usually have an hour or more to drive home, then fix something for dinner. But not this time! It just so happened that I had brought about twice as much food for dinner Friday night than what we actually needed, so we cooked that, then left for home with tired feet and happy bellies. 

I just have a feeling that we will be going camping a lot more often now. Stay tuned...

Surely beats an air mattress on hard ground, especially a flat air mattress!

Stillwater River ~ not quite "still"!