Wednesday, July 22, 2015

McGill Camping Trip

At the beginning of July, we took a short camping trip to McGill Campground for just two nights. We went up Friday night after work, turned around after forgetting the propane (this is the second time this has happened -- C'mon Propane Boy!) and got there a little after 9pm. After circling the campground several times, we selected our spot and set up camp. Waking up Saturday morning to the forest was just the ticket to make the trip backtracking for our fuel worth it. We spent the morning having coffee and watching Casey play in the dirt. 
And that was the basic agenda of the rest of the weekend. Expect we substituted coffee with a variety of meals and treats throughout the day. And Casey played in the dirt. Sometime on Saturday, our friends Hannah and Isaac showed up. And they joined in our non-agenda. Thanks guys for being our freebird friends who come for one night and are so relaxed. 

Here are some pictures to prove it:


Our Campsite



The cubby ankles kill me!
The best pic of Rosie from the weekend. Her sillouette through the tent.

For anyone local, here is my review of McGill Campground:

McGill Campground is located about 1 hour and 15 minutes outside of town near Pine Mountain Club. It is a walkup only compround with vault toilets and no water. You must bring your own water. We brought 5 gals of dishwashing water and 2.5 gals of drinking water for a two night trips. I wish we would have had more dishwashing water. I recommend this campground for it's proximity to Bakersfield. It is at a high enough elevation to where you can enjoy temperatures about 20 degrees cooler than in town. We saw one hiking trailhead and a couple of mountain biking trailheads. This is the campground to come to if you want to sit back and relax. My one complaint is that the campground host was a little too friendly; he was continually stopping by on his scooter and interrupting our needed relaxation. Even the over-friendly-want-to-be-campground-host Jayson got a little annoyed. Overall, a nice place to relax.

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