John and the boys teamed up with three other fathers and sons.  The dads started planning and meeting and getting lists together.  They loaded up two pickups and boats and headed off for 3 days in the wilderness.  Originally I had the idea of one person boating in with the little extras and the rest of us hiking in to the camp spot.  The dads got a hold of the idea and the girls were voted out and there was no hiking in to camp.  They went to Baker Lake on a Wednesday afternoon.  They boated in and at the last camp site, there was a couple heading out.  It was perfect for them. 
They set up two 8 men tents and an extremely large kitchen/camp stove.  They ate s'mores and biscuits over an open fire, had inner tubing wars (two tubes on one boat), went fishing (not catching), swimming (very cold), hiking, whittled sticks, chopped logs (mostly by Job), told stories, and generally were very manly.  A first was cooking hamburgers over an open fire on the grate provided. 
Apparently it worked great.  I asked them if they had photos, some they said.  I think about 10 photos.  The other dads and kids took some too. 



John et les garcons ont alles avec autres peres et fils pour faire du camping.
 Ils ont alles a Baker Lake.  Ils ont pris deux camion et deux bateau.  Quand ils ont arrives, il y a quelqu'un qui a quitter la place.  La place etait parfait.  Ils ont deux grands tentes pour 8 personne et un grand fourneau du camp.  Ils ont manges des biscuit et s'mores (c'est chocolate, biscuit et guimauves), fus de ski nautique, marches, scions du bois, dits des histories, fus des peches et tailles des baton au couteau.
Ils ont retournes chez nous vraiment fatigues en temps d'aller au cote d'Oregon le jour prochain.

I love watching him.  J'aime lui voir.

Yesterday John spur of the moment registered and ran a 5K.  He didn't do too bad for really not running for a while.  He plays soccer once a week with a mens over 30 team and has a loosely organized kids soccer scrimmage once a week.  This is the way he stays in shape.  His time was 24:06.  I thought he did great.

She's so intense.

He's a little of a dare-devil.  Il est un casse-cou.

Lona did it too.  Elle le fait aussi.

Lona's turn. C'est a Lona.

He did it.  Il le fait!

First try.  Le premiere essayer.

Way to go Isaac.  Bravo Isaac.

Hier, John as couris 5 km.  Il joue le football quelque fois chaqque semaine.  Il est sur en equipe avec des autre qui sont plus de 30 ans.  Il aussi as un match pour des enfants qui vont jouer le footballe pendant l'ete.  Alors chaque lundi environs 10 enfants arrive pour jouer au football.  Ainsi avec jouer au football il reste dans la forme de courir.  Il a pris juste 24 minute de courir 5 km.  Je pense que c'est bien.  Apres le dinner, nous metons les serviettes, les skis natique, les boutielles d'eaus, des casse-croutes, et les gilet de vie dans le bateau et allons au lac.  Le lac est petit avec beaucoup des canards.  Alors l'eau est brun et chaud.  Il peut avait seulement six bateau dans l'eau a le meme temps.  C'est d'accord pour nous parce qu' il n'y a pas beaucoup de gens sur le lac.  Les enfants peuvent enseigner faire de ski natique.  Isaac a enseigne l'ete prochain mais Job et Lona essayent hier.  Job et Lona ne commencent pas dans l'eau mais sur un chambra a air.  C'est plus facile comme ca et ils ont eu le success.  Job prefere le chambra a air.  Il apport des lunettes parc qu'il n'aime pas l'eau dans ses yeux et il aime des vagues.  Lona a allee avec John.  Ils ont tombres dans l'eau.  C'est un jour vraiment amusent et nous le faisons encoure cette semaine. 

Today, we summitted Sauk Mountain.  We had planned on a hike in Canada but when reconsidering we decided to turn our eyes to something within the USA.  We've hiked pretty much everything along the coast in Whatcom County.  The hikes towards Mount Baker would still be snow bound, they open late July to August so they were out.  We turned to our trusty guide, Hiking the North Cascades to peruse the lists of hikes.  The very first hike in the book was Sauk Mountain.  It is past Concrete, which I've never been to.  It's eight miles of an "improved (by large potholes) dirt road to the trail head.  It is a 4.2 mile hike and open June through September. 
Perfect.  We piled into the truck, stuck the kennel in the back with the dog and headed out.  Return to the house to put other dog in kennel, return to the house again to get more snacks, a Forest service pass, some more to drink and finally we were off.   Only 1 hour later than expected but we had the whole day.  We arrived at the trail head around noon and Skagit jumped out of the truck and just layed in the dirt.  Finally, he made it!  ( He doesn't like riding in the vehicle no matter what it is. )
 Off we started, you could see the switch backs up the whole side of the mountain and it freaked the boys out a little bit.  They could just see themselves rolling down the whole mountain.  The kids really have two speeds, fast and stop.  With Isaac, we had him check his sugars at the beginning and reduce his basal by 50% and then checked it an hour into the hike.  We leap frogged another group of hikers (some older gals) pretty much the whole way. 
I told them at the beginning that they would beat us to the top and they did.  Once at the top we met another group who brought their baby up and their little skipperke dog.  We had lunch at the summit took some photos and headed back down.  We didn't get very far when we noticed a group of young men sliding down a hill of snow.  That hill was too steep for us so we found our own little hill, broke out our black "emergency" bag (it is a large plastic garbage bag) and proceded to sled down the hill on the bag and our windbreakers.  Skagit even got into the act by laying on his stomach with his front feet straight out in front and his back feet straight out behind him.  It was great!  I love sledding in July wearing shorts.  Then another hour and a half of hiking and Skagit quit.  He found a bush downhill of the trail and laid down.  He was NOT moving.  We were a football field away from the car and I had to lift him back on the trail TWICE!  We brought water for him but he is only 8 months old and it was far for him. We took him to the Skagit River to cool off.  He is a water dog.  Loves to swim, hiking not so much.  I guess his name fits.  Any how, we all had a great time hiking. Any earlier in the year and I think that it would have been too snowy.
 Some notes on the hike, bring more water and food.  We didn't run out but it is nice to have extras.  Using the garbage bag for a sled worked out great, bring some more:  they don't take up much room and it's fun.  Take more rests for the dog.  using the trekking poles really saved my knees.  I had some uncomfortable pain once or twice but I didn't have to turn around and hike backwards downhill.  Playing twenty questions on the way to the trailhead is always a good idea.  Job's person was Henry Ford.  We all had a hard time with that one. 
Au'jourdhui, nous prennons une promenade au tour d'une montagne.  Nous avons decide que c'est mieux de faire une promenade en Washington que Canada.  Nous avons faire toute les promenades pres de chez nous et l'ocean et dans les montange il y a plus de neige jusqu'a le fin du juiliet ou premiere d'aout.  Alors nous avons ouvrire notre livre de promenades dans les montanges.  La priemiere promenade est le montagne du Sauk.  C'est just 6 km au retour pour la promenade.  Nous sommes arrives vers midi est commence le promenade.  Skagit n'aime pas le voiture alors quand nous arrivions il juste couche par terre.  C'est drole.  Apres deux heure nous arrivons en haut.  C'est magnifique!  Nous prennons quelques sandwhiches avec nous et mangons notre dinner en haut.  Les garcons n'aiment pas voir en haut.  Ils sont en petite peur.  Quand nous decendons, nous sommes allees sledding.  Nous prennons un grand sac d'ordures avec nous si nous avons un urgence.  C'est un traineau parfait.  Meme le chien aime aller sledding.  Je pense que c'est grande d'aller sledding en juilliet dans des shorts et des t-shirts.  Nous sommes pres de la voiture quand Skagit decide qu'il ne peu pas bouger plus.  Il etait trop fatigue.  Il est juste 8 mois et 6 km est trops loin pour lui.  Nous avons decider que c'est promenade est parfait pour notre familee.