Baker Lake Camping

Our goal for this summer was to go camping at least twice. Last weekend we went for the first time out to Baker Lake, located in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. We stayed at Horseshoe Cove Campground and loved it! We borrowed Kim and Thane's pop-up camper and had perfect weather! I did forget a few things...the hamburgers for dinner, hashbrowns and sausage for breakfast, a sweatshirt and swimsuit for Lydia...but it all worked out!

They wanted to do the dishes!

We wanted to go for a hike, so one morning we packed lunch and started driving towards Blue Lake; unfortunately part way up the road, we encountered a lot of snow across the road! It was too much to attempt to drive through, so we turned around, found a little pull-out on the road and had a picnic lunch in the back of the truck! There was a waterfall close by, so we 'hiked' up the road to take a closer look at it!

It's a bit cold!

Back at our campsite, we headed down to the lake. It has a nice swimming area and Annaliese could not wait to get in the water! It was a bit breezy and where we were was in the shade in the afternoon, so it wasn't ideal swimming weather, and we only lasted a very short time!

We also found an Interpretive Trail close by that was a 0.5 mile loop; we walked it slowly, reading all the signs and looking around and then decided that we would do it two more times a little quicker, just for the exercise!

Kyle and Annaliese went for a bike ride one afternoon. They went down a dirt road that led to some beautiful views of the lake and the mountains!

I think everyone could have slept better- the girls had a really hard time falling asleep each night and Haleigh woke up in the middle of the night every night...which meant that Lydia also woke up...so we were all quite tired but still had a good time and are looking forward to our next camping trip in a few weeks!