Week of Sept the 19th, 2003.

Met up with Dean and Roger and their families at Teanaway campground (near Cle Elum, WA) on Friday. Was a very nice campground and the first time I had been there.

This free campground was very nice. Picnic tables and clean pit toilets but no garbage service. The campground is huge but the campsites within are not well-defined as it's so open. You can camp just about anywhere within this campground.  More open than I normally like but was very nice to camp in a circle with our RVs and the campground was *very* empty thus it gave the feeling of seclusion.. Dean, Roger and I parked level easily in a circle around a large fire-pit made out of rocks. Dean's Daughter's boyfriend's family (that's a mouthful) was camped next to us. They were *very* friendly and I enjoyed their company there.

There was a campfire ban in this area up until Thursday. We were pleasantly surprised that the campfire ban was removed on Thursday before we arrived; that is, we had heard the fire ban was removed within the Wenatchee National Forest (which we hoped included this campground yet we were not positive of that at the time). Dean confirmed this with the maintenance person who was cleaning up the pit-toilets on Friday afternoon. The maintenance person said to ignore the no campfire signs because he didn't have time to take them down until Saturday. On Saturday the maintenance person removed all of the some-odd (30ish) laminated signs that said "absolutely no campfires" which had been placed just about everywhere you looked within the campground.

On Friday evening Dean lit the fire. It was so dry still that the log that had been in the fire pit, for probably quite sometime, caught like it was soaked in gasoline. The pictures below shows how it burned so aggressively. We were all amazed and watched closely to make sure it didn't escape the fire pit.

I didn't take very many pictures on this trip as I forgot I even had a camera due to the fact we had such fun. It was one of those trips that was too relaxed to bother taking pictures.

It was such a fun time with the group. We shot BB guns and real guns (go figure, all of us are Liberals) for fun (did not fire the real guns within the campground but outside the campground in areas that allowed it).

 Everyone enjoyed this trip and all of us look forward to going back to this campground sometime in the future.

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