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This year we went to the lake with some friends and got to use our new paddle boards. There was a group of about 16 in total. Got a little rain Saturday but overall a nice relaxing weekend. It was a little hotter than I expected but not nearly as hot as Phoenix was. spent a good amount of time on the water, Ryker did much better on the paddle board than I thought he would. The lake is the highest I have ever seen it in the years I have been going. It was awesome to see the lake near max capacity after the rain and snow we had this last winter.
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Knoll Lake '20
Hanging out on the Rim
This weekend I went camping with Jake, Nicole, and Jake's brother Zack. We went up Friday as soon as Jake got off of work. It was nice to have the Tahoe back running like normal, after the over heating issues last time I ended up getting a new radiator and fan pulley. The drive up was kind of sad seeing all the parts of the mountain that was burned by the wildfire but once past Payson it was all green again and the temperatures dropped quickly. The road was just as wash boarded as Chevelon Lake was a couple months back. Watching Jake's little Honda Fit bounce around and him trying to miss all the rocks and rough spots was funny since I spent most of my time weaving back and forth trying to fish tail and goof around instead of running his car over or leaving them in a cloud of dust, but I will give him credit, he took it back in areas I wouldn't have wanted to take my car.
We were a lot closer to the Rim itself than I would have expected, it was fun to drive up near the cliffs and look down, some spots would have been fun to base jump off of, though the wind was so strong in some parts that I didn't push my luck too much going to the edge and climbing out on some of the rocks. I did finally spread some of Jade's ashes around on one of the cliffs I walked out to, I had planned to spread some on my last 2 trips but kept forgetting to take them with me and looking back I'm glad I didn't take her on my first trip this year.
It has been 2 years now, it was time.
The lake was nice and cool. I got to test out my new DSLR camera and finally got to use the propane fire pit that was 2 days too late being delivered for my last trip. The fire was great at night since since the fire ban was in place and not having all the smoke was great to not dry out my eyes with all the smoke. I left the rain cover off the roof of the tent so I could see the stars at night while I was laying there, I was watching some shooting stars and looking for satellites going by, some company to keep me warm would have been nice but maybe next time. The road to get from the camp to the lake from the back side of the lake was fun to take in the Beast, Jake and Zack had to leave their rides behind, no way either of them would have ever made it, some of the spots were even rough for me but it was fun and I'm still learning what the Tahoe is capable of doing. Once we parked we didnt exactly take the best route to get to the water but we made it, I almost slid down the side of the hill/cliff and almost went into the water which would have sucked with my new camera and other electronics on me, luckily Jake was able to double back and help me get back up, learned really quick I need better hiking shoes and a backpack, they will be bought before next trip, lol.
