lake Clementine

Pretty water right behind us

The water felt so good

So relaxing

It was pretty rough there

So, Last weekend we felt like getting out of town. We headed up to Auburn (one of our favorite places to go hiking). We were trying to head to Lake Clementine. We went a little past it and ended up at the Upper Lake Clementine. There was no shade a lot of people swimming. Stupid me, I forgot to wear my swim suit. Jason kept telling me to go in my shorts and t-shirt, but we had errands to run afterwards, and didn't want to. I was going to go in my underwear, but there was too many people around.

We knew we weren't at the place we wanted to be (we went with Roxy once, but they don't allow dogs). We asked the park rangers and they told us how to get there. We drove a little ways, and parked between some big trucks with their big boat trailers (near the boat dock). We followed this little trail (both of us were wearing flip flops). By the time we got to the bottom, we found a bunch of rocks. We ended up bouldering to the water and soaking our feet (which desperately needed it ...it was about 100 degrees at that time). We had a snake and took in the scenery. We were thinking we were going to run into some rattle snakes. Luck for us, no snakes.

When we were heading back up, the park rangers were gone, and we noticed a huge cloud of smoke. That's when the Auburn fire started. I'm glad we got out of there when we did. The needed up closing of 49. There were so many fire trucks, ambulances,, and police cars heading up that way (even from Sacramento).

We ended up having a blast and getting some sun. We can't wait until our next adventure. It might be a while, because Jason just started school.