Posey Lake - A Camping Adventure

We spent the week before the 24th up near my Dad's old stomping ground, Posey Lake. Most of our family made it by the end of the week, but it started with just my parents, the Mohler's, and us. The kids had so much fun roaming the campgrounds, throwing rocks into the lake, playing Swig in the trailer, doing puzzles, and fishing. We only had a few casualities including the bike trailer tipping, Alyson falling out of the trailer the first 20 minutes we were there and loosing Cooper once and turns out he was just a little faster at heading to the lake than everyone else.

Everynight we would head down to the lake and hang out at the dock fishing. Ellie is turning into quite the outdoorsman and she was so proud to show off the fish they would catch. I don't know how she didn't manage to fall right into the lake. By the last night she would get on her bike and ride down to the lake by herself to met her Dad. She loved it!!!!

One of the days we took the kids shooting down by the old Cowpuncher Forest Service Cabin and then drove over to Hell's Backbone. They have improved the bridge alot and it is not nearly as scary as I remember from my childhood. 

I also got to drive down to town with my Dad one day. He showed me where Shane got his first deer, where he used to take the sheep, some old troughs that were carved out of logs. He also told me a few stories along the way. One happened just under the old CC camp, they had needed more firewood so they had loaded everyone up in the trucks and drove a couple miles down the road to where a big pine and fallen. While the adults were busy the kids were playing down by the road. An old truck coming from Loa with peaches loaded in the back came around the corner and clipped one of the trucks tailgate and tipped. A guess Peaches went rolling everywhere. Once the truck was back on the road and on all 4 tires the man said, "I guess there is no sense in going to Escalante now" and turned around and went back the way he came. My Dad said everytime after that they'd go up to Posey he'd look in that gully to see if any peach trees had started to grow. 

 By the end of the week Aunt Kim, Chelcie, Rich, Alex, Aunt Natalie, Cody, Uncle Shane, and WIll had come up. The first afternoon the Fisher's were there we were down at the docks trying to fish and a few of the polygamist wives and children were down splashing in the water(the husbands were working on the campsites). Well once they jumped in Alex went up and put on her suit and jumped in and swam around that lake. It was pretty gross with lots of weeds and the lake is kind of that green color, but she was in pure heaven and didn't want to come back in. The rest of the week was spent eating, playing and having a great time.