Tag: camping

Annual Camping Trip

My family’s one week camping trip to Winthrop, WA on Lake Pearrygin 

Every year during the second week of August, my family and two cousins (6 of us total) all pile in to our 1990 Volkswagen Van and make the four and a half hour trek through the North Cascades Highway to Winthrop Washington. I have been going on this trip ever since I can remember. This was the place where I learned how to fish, pitch a tent, roast marshmallows of the fire, tell ghost stories, and cherish the time spent with family away from technology. 

Here is the famous van we take when camping. Yes, it is a camping van where the top pops up creating a bed and the bench seat in the back folds out into another bed. 

This year at the lake it was really smokey from all the forest fires near by. The sun was this blood orange color at all times of the day and the temperature was way cooler than normal because of the smoke filtering the sun. Needless to say, I got some pretty cool photos because of the smoke, check them out below:

This was taken around 6 am when the sun was rising. I woke up to birds chirping early that morning so decided to go down to the dock with one of my cousins to go fishing. 
Here you can see how smokey it was camping, it was definitely pretty eerie over the lake. The smoke was so thick you couldn’t see the other end of the lake!

This trip is the one thing I look forward to every year. It is a place where I get to spend time with my family enjoying the outdoors, exploring the town of Winthrop, and unplugging from social media for a week. At first this time away from my phone was hard, but as I grow up every year I look forward more and more to this separation from technology and really cherish all the time spent talking and laughing among family.