Mountain Retreat

Cedar Breaks

We decided to drive to greener pastures in the mountains on Hwy 14. We drove by lots of rock slides and endless amounts of fallen trees, blown over from recent strong winds and late snow storms. Our hopes of visiting Brian's Head and Cedar Breaks was dashed as the road was still closed. We continued through lava covered terrain until we turned onto a dirt road leading to Navajo Lake. We came across a campground  covered with snow, but the gates were open, and found a level bit of ground to park on. A Ranger happened by to say that the campground was still closed and had only been snow ploughed 2 hours ago....and the contractor may come by and ask us to leave. Until then we decided to stay and enjoy the scenery.
 

John building a shoe box

Having stayed the night, the next morning we donned our life jackets and cast off in our inflatable kayak to explore the lake. But not long into our paddle the wind picked up creating white caps and strong gusts...the wind kept up all afternoon and into the night bringing with it lots of clouds.

Snow and Lava flow

The snow plough guy called by that afternoon and said "we had snuck in before he had had time to shut the gate" but since we were leaving the next morning he gave us the ok to stay for the night and asked us to lock the gate upon leaving in the morning. It felt great to have the campsite to ourselves.

Spruces Campground