The weekend of Sept. 26-28th was our annual CMS Campout.
This is the 2nd time we’ve camped at the Teanaway Neighborhood Forest Campground and we really like it for group camping. Wide flat areas for pitching multiple dispersed tents, good parking, paved roads to the campground, and vault toilets. I could not camp without my standup tent and queen air mattress, and next year I’m planning to add a heated sleeping bag. Don’t want to rough it too much. We had a propane stove and propane fire rings for cooking and campfire. This year due to the Labor Mtn Fire closures we couldn’t get up to Red Top for rockhounding, so we did an area called Yellow Hill which is just to the northwest of our camping area a few miles. I’ve been to it twice before but have never taken a group. It’s not a prolific rock collecting site, but there is good material to be found and we did find a few amazing pieces and quite a bit of moderately nice pieces. Fortunately, the smoke wasn’t too bad as a breeze took most of it to the east. Daytime temps were perfect, but the nights were very chilly. Sat night got down to 38 degrees. We only had 4 tents in the bivouac, but 3 people stayed in Cle Elum and a few just came up for the day trips. Beautiful hikes with the trees and shrubs beginning to reveal their fall colors. On Sat. we went up Yellow Hill Trail #1222 which can be found on Google Maps and on Sunday a few of us went up the Teanaway Middle Fork Trail.
Attendees for the weekend were Jeanie L., Noelle B., Becky P., Scott & Lauri M., Michele M & Gerry P., Loren M., Robert M., Phillip & Shaun T., Jarrod D., and me.
Many thanks to Lauri M. and Jeanie L. for sharing their pictures.
Submitted by Roger Danneman CMS Field Trip Guide
