Hazen's First Camp

Hazen finally got his first camping trip. I still cannot believe that we did not get him out last year but we did not get one camp trip in last summer. That will change this year. This is the first of many that we will take as a family.

We decided on Spring Hollow in Logan Canyon after I finally convinced Amy that the bad weather we were having would blow over Saturday afternoon. As usual, she was right and you can see that things are a little wet in the pic below. But the sun is shining in the background but it did stay very cold. The firepits up here are great if you have little ones. You don't get very warm around the fire but you do not have to worry about them falling in.
Just behind Amy and Hazen in the picture below is the creek that runs down from Spring Hollow. It was running great and is the perfect background noise when you are camping. This is the first time we have used the tent that is also in the background. We upgraded to a vacation cabin from our old tent. This gives us a lot more room and a place for the kids to play if it rains.
When it did not warm up we decided that it was best if Amy took the kids back to the house for the night. I stayed at the camp to stick out the cold and wet night. It really felt like March rather than June. The boys had their coats on the whole time that we were there.
Amy said that Ethan cried all the way to Logan cause he wanted to stay. He helped me with every aspect of setting up camp from the tent to gathering wood. He really loves being outside and was on the move constantly.
As I crawled in my sleeping bag around 11 I was a little upset because it was not too cold at that point and I felt like the kids and Amy could have spent the night without getting too cold. My mide was changed for me around 4 am when the temperature dropped and even woke me up. I stacked blankets on me and was glad that they went down.

The next morning I got up around six and built a fire and some hot cocoa and fried up some bacon. The morning was still cool but the sky was clear as could be. Probably the reason for the cold morning.
Amy and the boys got back to camp around 10 that morning. We had the camp until 2pm and we stayed for every bit of it. We let Ethan cook some more marshmello's and then we did hotdogs for lunch.
Ethan and Hazen had a lot of fun playing around the camp. Hazen was so bundled up that when he fell he did not feel a thing but then could not get up on his own either. He came out pretty dirty and I smiled with pride.
This is the creek right behind our camp.

Post by Cole

Fishing at Logan Canyon's 3rd Dam with Clint

My good buddy Clint and I went fishing on Third Dam a few weeks ago. And I can finally say that I am a successful fisherman. As long as my success is not measured by the length of my fish.

As you can see from the first two pictures the evening was amazing. These pictures show just how bright and calm it was. They were even taken with a cell phone. Really wish I would have had my digital camera but these turned out really nice.

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Clint and I started fishing up on the top end of the dam where Eric had caught a few fish. We had no luck and decided to head down to the spillway. We found our spot right under this tree and fished here till it got dark.

Clint was the first to catch a fish. The fish were biting of the top and I mean really going after it. Some of them brought their whole bodies out of the water. So I broke out every last fly I had in my arsenal. Clint told me I was crazy and went back to his spinners and had fish following him right up to the bank. When he caught his first albino fish it did not take me long to switch to my rapalla minnow.
They followed my minnow up to the bank as well and it was on with the little guys. Here I am below with my first fish of the season. Whoever said size doesn't matter hit the nail on the head. It was good to get it on my 6th fish day of the year.
Here is Clint with one of the albino fish he caught. The Game Warden said that they are almost impossible to catch but Clint caught 3 and I caught two of them.
In all Clint caught 5 fish and I caught 3
Here are the lures and bait we were using. They were stealing the Salmon Eggs right off of the hook. To the right of the eggs is my Rapalla Countdown Brown Trout Minnow. On the bottom, Clint caught all of his fish with these lures. The one on the left is an in-line spinner lure with the orange, yellow and green spoon with a copper spiral body weight. In the middle is the Simple Simon Lure. On the right is another in-line spinner with red dots. They loved each one of these and followed them all into the bank.