Jace's 1st REAL Camping Trip

This weekend we finally got to take Jace on his first REAL camping trip. We are talking 4-wheeling to the middle of the forest, sleeping in tents, hanging out with the bears kind of camping. Yeah, totally not kidding about the bears. As we drove out of our campsite the first day a big brown bear ran right in front of our Jeep, followed seconds later by a big beautiful deer. We ruined that bear's lunch and made that deer's day for sure!

This is our favorite place to camp. It is VERY off the beaten path and pretty secluded, but totally worth it to camp in such a beautiful spot. (That is our friend and super awesome camping buddy Mike in the pic below.)


Right beside the rocks where Jace is standing in the picture above is this creek...

It's a big part of what makes this camping spot so awesome!!

We were in the Jeep on one of the fun trails near camp and Jeremy hit a big rut that he couldn't see because of the shadows. His toolbox literally launched into the air and all 104 of his tools rained down on the trail. It was actually pretty hilarious. Jeremy dubbed this trail "Toolbox."


Saturday night we went up to Bald Mountain. The mountain looks out over Shaver Lake (and quite a bit of Fresno/Clovis/Sanger.) Every year on the Saturday of 4th of July weekend there is a boat parade and fireworks show on the lake. The view of the show from Bald Mountain is AMAZING! We got up the mountain early to make sure we got a good spot. We got to hang out, bbq, and enjoy the view while we waited...




Once the sun was out of sight the fireworks began...


From the top of the mountain we were able to count 5 different fireworks shows, in at least 3 cities throughout the valley, that we could see. Completely awesome!

A fun first camping trip for Jace for sure!