Spontaneous camping in the North Cascades National Park

Spontaneous: seriously the best word to describe this trip. Due to avalanche conditions, my trip to climb and snowboard Mt. St. Helens in a dress on Mother's Day was scratched. So, last minute email, a few hours of driving, and voila, fifteen of my friends show up in North Cascades National Park for camping. Now, this isn't your every day car camping. This was driving abandoned logging roads in Pontiac Grand Prixs, hiking 150 yards, carrying coolers of beer, middle-of-nowhere hard core camping. What? That doesn't sound hard core to you? It wasn't. Seriously, I smoked a two pound King Salmon filet and made couscous for dinner. Not. Hard. Core.

But it was ridiculous. After way too much drinking, a story about kidnapping a duck and a rabbit by our illustrious friend, Kyle, we all passed out in our little tent city (this was 7 tents in a 20'x20' area) and woke up feeling like a million bucks Sunday morning. Then, drove another 15 Miles down the road for a hike along Thunder Creek. This hike was intense, let me tell you. We started at our cars, walked across the parking lot (50 ft) to the dock at Diablo Lake. There, we decided it was time for a sunbathing break. After a couple hour break and pictures of a sun halo rainbow, we decided we were ready for the long journey home. So, after a harrowing 50 foot journey back to the car, we started up and headed home.

Beers Tasted (+ for favorites):

Tecate

Coors Light

Miller Lite

+Stone Arrogant Bastard (Thanks, McCormack!)

Spontaneous camping in the North Cascades National Park

Marblemount, United States