Sept 26-28th, 2025 Teanaway Campout and Field Trip Report

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated: November 8, 2025 — 8:35 pm

Presidents Message

  • Digging It!  Thanks to everyone who came to the club camp out at Teanaway campground near Cle Elum last month. After a brief spell of rain the first night, we were blessed with sun, clear skies, and rockhounding the rest of the weekend. And a big thanks to Roger Danneman for doing all of the trip organizing, and keeping us all warm and well fed during the weekend. This month I’ll be giving a talk at our club meeting about how to use Gaia for rockhounding. If you have specific questions, please bring them along or feel free to email …

Meeting Announcements

  • Noelle Barnes will present Using Gaia for Rockhounding, an overview of the features and tricks associated with the app Gaia and how you can use it for GPS, saving waypoints, navigation, photo tagging, trail recording and more. Show and Tell: Bring the rock(s) that have the best “story” – and tell everyone how you found them and where!

  • Club board member Paul Ahnberg will talk to us about the impact of wildfires on our lives – from protecting your home to staying safe while out rockhounding – and what we can do today to help mitigate our risk. Paul will combine his knowledge gained from learning at both the WSU Green School (Master Gardener) and WSU Climate Steward programs. Show and Tell: Bring something you found, from a place that you know has since been impacted by floods or wildfires – or was impacted shortly before you arrived. Tell your story!

  • December’s date and time is coming soon. We will update this page as soon as we know more.

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