Suiattle, The Return – Now Langston Free!

Derrick and Lee - check out the mountains behind them. We're in Darrington picking up supplies.

Stopped at the liquor store in Darrington to load up on essentials.

This was a REALLY short ride. Last year we rode in from Darrington making this a nice and easy 30 miler. This year there was a lot of sick and busted people so we drove until the road was closed, a mere 8.5 miles away from the camp site. At that distance, you can get pretty stupid about what you bring. We didn't cut a lot of corners heh. Borderline car camping.

The Suiattle River

Remington testing out the loaded Karate Monkey. Tellin you, this bike is 30 kinds of badass. My camping gear is in the red pannier, Monicas is in the black. I carried a small daypack too, but the only thing in it was a light weight griddle, some tent poles, and the booze.

Remington has the whiskey on quick draw.

Picture by Andre - look mom, I'm on a bike.

Alex and Lee

Good thing this is a short ride. Rogelio carrying Monica on the Xtracycle.

The famous bridge crossing.

We dropped bags at Downey Creek campsite and then Alex and I went further up the trail to Sulphur Creek to check out the site up there. There was a lot of downfall between Downey Creek and Sulphur Creek. All in all Sulphur Creek Campground wasn't bad, but there were already people in it so we stuck with what we had. The Lean-to and firepit make Downey Creek a damn fine place to camp.

We started drinking almost immediately. Jesus. Derrick kept reloading the Boones bottle.

Andre - so pretty!

.83 Bar immediately in full effect. Funny how this seems to follow us wherever we go.

Derrick fishing with Boones Farm. The color blue continued to get lighter and lighter as Derrick would load and reload the bottle with straight Monarch Vodka. Christ.

Alex

We kept throwing logs in and then tried to sink them with rocks. Rogelios pants had a catastrophic blowout and he was left in his pinstriped undies. And a sarong.

Eventually the Boones looked like this - Greyhounds.

Full Moon

For the life of me I do not know how you put these in your mouth.

Photo from Alex - Monica

Photo from Alex

Photo from Alex - Derrick did catch a fish after all

Photo from Alex - Sunday Morning - lookout a few hundred yards up the river from our site

Morning after

Andre brought makings for ice cream sundaes, fortunately there were leftovers because I had them for breakfast.

The grate/griddle thing worked really really well. Breakfast was off the hook. SO MUCH BACON.

Downey Creek - I went down and filtered water under the bridge. Boy that creek is deep and moving fast.

Yes thats a vegetarian corndog being cooked in bacon grease on a griddle.

Unexploded dry ice bombs.