Timber Valley escapee member park in Sutherlin Oregon. It was a long drive from Redding 270 miles in and out of rain. We arrived at 4pm and were warmly greeted and parked in our site(#13). The park has 206 sites and is beautifully landscaped and stair stepped up hill. It is surrounded by forest and sets in a clearing.
We slept in Thurs morning and debated as to would we site see today or just kick back and relax. Being the adventurers we are we took off for the Umpqua river scenic byway on hwy #138. This is a 100 mile drive from Roseburg to
Crater lake.It has world class salmon, and steelhead fishing,rafting,kayaking,and waterfalls.We stopped off at fall creek falls trailhead and hiked back in a half a mile for a spectacular up close view of the falls. There was a big Doug fir tree fallen across the pool below the falls. Of course I had to impress my gal by walking across the pool on the log. It was pretty high off the ground so I decided I would show Jeni my athletic prowess by jumping off the log onto a rock. A big wet rock! You know how your inner self tells you things, things
like"Hey DumbAss Don't do It!"Well I didn't listen, and I jumped,my feet went out from under me and down I went......I laid there all wet and muddy,my first thought....did Jeni film that? I looked over and she hadn't even seen it ,she was too busy filming the falls. "Thank God you won't see my fall on film!"Luckily I wasn't hurt.Just my pride. By the way a couple of days ago,when we were up at Burney Falls,I was filming Jeni and she took a little tumble.I did get that on film.We laughed so hard we nearly wet our pants.I should send it in to that show about bloopers caught on
tape.As we traveled the byway we were in and out of rain.One minute you are in sunshine and the next minute your in a rain storm.As we climbed toward crater lake it got colder and colder. We stopped at another trailhead to view Watson Falls. This time we didn't get too close as it was a pretty good hike to get to it,and it was pretty steep. We just took a picture of it from the the trail head.
As we got closer to crater Lake, we started seeing snow on the ground and even though it was still only rain, we figured it was only a matter of time before it turned to snow. We got as far as Diamond lake,and decided this was as far as we wanted to go today. Crater Lake will have to wait til next time. We found a little picnic pull off with a view of the lake so we had lunch.It was cold! we had our lawn chairs out bundled up but it was too cold for enjoying the view of the lake,we "wolfed down" are sandwiches and headed back to the park.We stopped in Roseberg at Denny's(it's always open) for dinner.
Friday we slept in late again but this time we just "puttered"all day. catching up on things.One thing I needed to take care of was a pesky leak on the passenger side window.When we were coming to Oregon,the rain was coming in the window so bad Jeni had to put a towel in the top to keep from getting wet.I climbed up the ladder to inspect it and found those darn woodpeckers at Park Sierra had pecked an acorn into the rubber around the window! I removed the acorn ,smoothed out the rubber,and caulked it for good measures. Hopefully that will do the trick.
At 3pm I went over to the "social "at the clubhouse.Cake,coffee,and good conversation.Jeni was busy with a project so she didn't come.I did meet a couple that have a lot here as well as one at Park Sierra.Their name escapes me but they remembered us from last summer when we camphosted. They have a beautiful park here and I can see why there is a 4 or 5 year wait on the list to get in.
Well tomorrow we will be on the "site seeing" trail again.We will be here til Tuesday then it is on to our volunteer job at Cape Blanco. Jeni and I hope we can stay on our feet when we head out tomorrow for new adventures because the camera will be rolling as always when we hit the "site seeing trail.....in Oregon.
