Week 30 - Timothy Lake (Ruby and Jane), Oregon City - July 14 -July 20, 2025 

Birthday Hike for       Ruby and Jane.  We went to Timothy Lake and parked on the West Side Dah Area, hiked to Meditation Point, and ended up at tent Site 4.  

The trail was nice and easy---one didn't even have to look at their feet and avoid rocks or roots.  The trail passes through beautiful trees in an ancient forest.

Now we just had to find a vacant campsite.  There are seven on the little peninsula, and we were fortunate to get number 4.

There was a good size ledge down to the water, and that area became the "waterfall", the "bridge", the "arch" the EVERYTHING!  I took numerous videos of Ruby describing their 'water feature'.  It was great fun.  They spent hours building the canal and then redesigning it.

Jane made mud balls and got a bit to close with them.

There was a forest fire to the west of us - we could see white billowing smoke.  And then, the helicopter appeared and, for several hours, scooped up water and flew it to the fire.

There were also two small airplanes that flew, skimming over the water, and filling up tanks of water.  Once full they would fly to the west and appeared  again in about ten minutes.  The helicopter was very noisy.

We pitched the tent on the only flat area. Above the tent was a humongous vine Maple.

I loved the way the leaves looked with the blue sky behind them.

We hiked out to the tip of the peninsula to check out campsite #3....yeah, possibly the best view of all of them, but being on the end, it was pretty windy.

We only spent one night which was probably enough for a first time trip for Jane.  Loaded up and heeded back to the car.

The car, all on its own, drove into the Dairy Queen parking lot in Sandy.  We had a great time.

Arriving back in Oregon City, I found Dad working on the chimney flue.  He was applying the fiberglass blanket to the flue.  It was tricky to do  The circumference of the flue was 21 inches and the fiberglass was 24 inches wide.  Should have been easy.  but we called Jessica and said, HELP, and at about the same time Warren arrived.  With their help we got both sections wrapped up.

ON Saturday, the work crew arrived - Warren, Paul, Malcolm, and Val.  There had been a lot of mental planning done ahead of time, and the work was easily done!!!!