here in idaho falls: camping

Monday, May 28, 2007

Camping at Fish Creek Idaho

Went on the first of many camping trips and the weather was beautiful. I think this is the first Memorial Day weekend that it didn't rain on in 10 years. We went with our good friends the Browns and had a good time, at a real nice camping spot.

Frank and Steve took the four little ones up on Friday night since Amber had to work. Her and Christie drove up on Saturday morning. We picked a spot just across from the spot we camped at last year. We had an excellent location. Just 30 feet from the Fish Creek, nobody in sight, and nice scenery everywhere. Even on Memorial weekend it was nice... we didn't have anyone within site, but a few within hearing range.

Saturday morning we woke up to a bunch of hillbillies blasting their guns and rifles into the creek. Woke us all up at 8:30 or so... Steve and Frank both unzipped the tents and had a few not so kind words with them. That was the last we heard of them shooting :)

We saw 3 Moose while camping this time. The first one in the morning of the first day, a large cow and her just born little one. It was maybe a month old if that, the size of our dogs. They were about 100 feet from us across the creek.

The other moose snuck up on us Saturday night. Amber was in the tent and the moose chased Pinot right to our tent. I'd guess maybe 15 feet at the most from the tent. Then...it just cruised back into the trees and went about it's business.

Poor Buddy, Steve's dog. Friday night we were putting the kids down in the tent and heard a giant dog yelp. Buddy got hit by a porcupine again. I think this is the third time I've been with him and he's been hit. This was by far the worst. He had about 25 quills (each 2 inches long) in the soft part of his nose. About 50 across is body, and about another 50-70 in his hind leg. We had to sit in the dark with our head lamps pulling each one out with pliers and our fingers...while the kids just sat their and watched. He took it well, incredible pain suppression.

The kids got to play in the creek, play with a frog, fish... see tons of fish swimming in the crystal clear Fish Creek. We got in a little hiking, and everything just went pretty smoothly. We brought them over to Big Springs (about 5 minutes from the camp site) to let them see the start of the Henry's Fork of the Snake River. It's spring fed and is strange looking as the start is from the side of a mountain.