After 2 nights and one full day enjoying the environs of the Santa Cruz mountains, we give the park 9 out of 10 Camping Yummies*. We've already decided to return in the winter months to enjoy a few nights in the platform tents. Yar!
Highlights: The food (no surprises there), the fantastic campsites, the amazing redwoods, the cozy fires, and the view from Buzzard's Roost.
(Photos below: Buzzard's Roost, Bag of Cheetos Enjoying the View From Buzzard's Roost, Lovely Campsite, and Dinner Prep)
Lowlights: Experiencing leftover symptoms of cotton lung whilst climbing the 1200 vertical feet (in switchback form) to the peak of Buzzards Roost. Dude. I'm outta shape. I need to put an end to my poor ballet attendance and gym avoidance. Sheesh. Other lowlights include: the bees (very buzzy and annoying) and the critters (we had racoon visitors at night, although the only evidence was the trampled bag we found in the morning....)
* As I ran off to work Friday morning (while Jigs rolled over to enjoy a day-off morning snooze), I put Jigs in charge of concocting a dessert plan. And concoct he did! Using the so-called Interweb, he discovered the wonder that is Camping Yummies. The recipe goes something like this: buy a tube of Pillsbury puff pasteries and jug o' puddin; start fire; jam one raw circle of puff pastery onto roasting implement; roast patery until it puffs to twice its raw size; remove pastery from roasting implement; create well in pastery center; fill well with puddin; enjoy your Yummy. See pic below (Yummy craddled in Jigs' meaty paw....oh no, wait! That's MY meaty paw!).
3 comments:
Sounds lovely! I went to Big Basin once and it was kind of dreadful. It rained the whole time and I didn't have any warm food (it was just a day hike) and I was very over it by the time we got back to the parking lot.
I'm jealous. I will need to get camping suggestions for you. Or better yet, tag along on one of your camping expeditions!
Hi Jpo!
Excellent photos! Your trip looks like so much fun!
I have also been the victim of midnight racoon raids. And the ones living in campgrounds are mammoth in size - Raul attempted to scare one off the middle of the night, and it simply stood up on it's two hind legs and looked at him. Needless to say, the dog slept in the tent, lest the racoons of unusual size attack him in the night.
I cannot help but ask - who are the PHers making preparations to go to Burning Man?
Love,
Shan
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