Baker Lake, WA - Sept. 17 - 19

We decided to move around to Lake Baker in the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest so that we could pass through Concrete to do laundry, find a post office and stores for miscellaneous stuff. Aside from an innovative town sign, there was hardly a soul walking the streets and many store fronts empty. The laundromat was the busiest business around as well as a hardware store that sold everything making perfect sense given the lack of competition. It is a cute town though and passing back through, we will be looking up a bakery we read about after the fact.

The north side of Mtn. Baker has a scenic byway that I’m sure is spectacular and tempting but we wanted to continue the push to the Pacific. It may have been a good decision because we found that although campgrounds were listed as open online along the lake, more than half were actually closed. The same was likely to be true north. We stayed the first two nights at Horseshoe Cove CG and then moved over to Lower Sandy which was dispersed camping/free. This campsite was one of the nicest we have had! These were lazy days for biking and great beaches for Nina to run. I also found a great pond behind a pump house with an amazing collection of at least 7 different kinds of ducks.

We will be traveling down to Deception Pass State Park Friday night before arriving at my sister’s house in time for her birthday Saturday. They really aren't that far away at this point so we will be looping back to see the San Juan’s later.

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