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Jackson Meadows #3 2015

Jackson Meadows Reservoir was once again a great trip. Met up with my buddy Gary Goldsmith who taught me how to do night sky photography. The Perseid Meteor shower was going on and I got up at 3am to try and shoot it. Quite hard to do since the shooting stars happen so fast. All you can hope for is that while the shutter is open for 15 seconds, one happens within your frame. I had no such luck. But its amazing to see all the stars that show up beyond what the naked eye can see. It was also interesting to see light from Truckee, I guess, coming over the mountains from the southern sky.

Due to the constant water problems at East Meadows CG, the USFS decided to put in vault toilets starting with one right near Gary’s site #30. It was amazing to see the thing installed within a day and a half. The normal flush bathrooms are shut down cause of lack of water and port-potties installed.

We spotted a single pelican out on the water, unusual. Also we believe we saw a bald eagle soaring over the lake along with some nice views of a hawk. Fishing was pretty crappy the first two days with a only two 4″ trout caught and released. But the third day had more luck with three catches and two saved for dinner. My CG neighbor, Randy, caught 4 nice trout using a Rapala countdown.

Not much in the way of photos. No great sunsets, Pass Creek was just a trickle.

Biggs cooling off, one dirty dog with bad ear

Gary and Benetar

Windy so great sparkles on the lake in the afternoon

big nose Ben

My site #34

Normally this is a big waterfall.

New pit toilet

Biggs and Ben

Gary

Milky Way

Busy resting after the PCT

Selfie

So many trees around campsite, hard to see stars

Jackson Meadows #2 June 2015

June 7 -10th. Jackson Meadows second trip this year. This time I was in site #30. An awesome view, nicely private (thats why it’s called the honeymoon site), plenty of shade where you want it and sun where you need it for the solar panels. But … a pretty steep hike down to the lake. Not far, but steep.

Weather was great up until Tuesday afternoon when it clouded over and began raining around 7pm. Also with thunder and lightening which, as usual, freaked Ben out completely. He seemed to feel the safest place to be was tucked in the leg area of the passenger seat side of the RV. That is until his calming meds kicked in, and I was able to coax him to his bed.

The Yeti and solar panels worked great and kept my rv batteries totally charged the entire time. Pictures below show the setup for the Yeti relative to the batteries and the nice spot I was able to set the panels.

Fishing was not great but good enough. I caught three trout but decided to do the “catch and release” route this time. I very much dislike killing fish. As usual, the kayaking early in the morning, with the lake like glass was just fantastic, whether I caught fish or not. I put the dogs in “Doug” the RV and give them a pigs ear to chew, hoping to keep them busy enough to not complain when I go fishing. However, Biggs would have none of that business the second day. He musta barked for an hour and a half inside the RV while I was on the lake. I could hear him all the way on the opposite side. Luckily he didn’t really bother the neighbors, and there really weren’t many in the campground anyway (midweek and just before school is out). This time I found good fishing in the relatively shallower water to the left of the campsite near the end of the finger. Tried several lures, however the only thing that worked was the SEPS dodger followed by a fat worm.

Here are the pics. I took all with my little Lumix this time. I like to always bring it with me, just in case but didn’t think I would be doing much photography since I have been here a zillion times now, so didn’t take my better camera on hikes etc. The normal posers, Ben and Biggs, are in many of these as usual.

Cliff at site #30

Solar panels setup

Site #30

Cliff at site #30

My Yeti 150 solar converter and battery

Site #30

A tiny, tiny wildflower

Xmas colors

Mr. Happy.. Biggs

Pass Creek Falls

solar panels – boulder 15s

Site #30

Not many campers so lots of time to play ball with Ben

Ben a little bummed because we are leaving and its raining.

Jackson Meadows #3 August 2014

This third visit to Jackson Meadows we took the grandkids, Olallie and Atticus. They only stayed over one night but we got in swimming, fishing, hanging (in hammock), dominoes, campfire and an all around great time. I missed them all when kate took them home on Tuesday. I stayed for a couple more nights. Got some fishing in, caught 3 rainbows, took home two. And started some new books. Also enjoyed my new hammock. Very quiet campground, with hardly anyone there the first part of the week. Always the benefit of going during the week and after school has started. Temperature got down to 49 in the mornings. Here are some pics, Kate took the vertical ones.

Merganser

Jackson Meadows Campout #2 June 2014

Spent a really nice midweek campout at Jackson Meadows 6/10-6/13. Only one other camper in the loop, and the other loop only had about 3 campers. Fishing sucked, not a nibble, but it was so quiet and peaceful. Dogs could run free. First day went swimming as it was in the 80, delightful. After that it cooled down to the point where it was 41 in the RV one morning when I got up. I did a lot of studying for my upcoming CompTIA A+ exam. Lake had dropped quite a bit from my visit two weeks ago. Pass Creek is still running but I suspect in a couple weeks it will be just a trickle. Here are the few photos I took.

Biggs

Site 34, my favorite

Biggs

Ben