More Exploring!

One of the campgrounds where we stayed had an unexpectedly good hike to "The Overlook" -- we were the only people there overnight again, though we saw one other in the morning. It was a State Recreation Site, and they had a 1 mile "Nature Trail" but the Overlook hike was longer and quite steep. The view at the top was so worth it, and the sun had come out by then with enough of a breeze at the top that there were no bugs.



It was just one of those days that you wondered, "Why didn't I bring lunch and a book?" We were content there for quite a while but wanted to move on to the next place (headed back from Chicken now) so we descended and packed up!

We'd brought fishing gear, so we did fish a couple of places along the way.



Ironically, Brian caught a grayling in one place that we completely didn't expect to, the Grizzly Campground, where we ordinarily wouldn't have chosen to stay - still, we were parked right by Grizzly Lake, only one other camper was there (not primitive camping at all, so cabins, etc., all unoccupied mid-week.) We rented a canoe and paddled a little, came in for a rainstorm, then went out again in the morning and paddled - Brian through in and caught a pretty good-sized grayling on the first cast.



Kira isn't crazy about being in the canoe, but this is more of her favorite spot! She starts out across from us in her own bed, and sometime during the night, she hops over with us. She was a good sport for the week though and hiked every day with us.