Idyllwild, July 2-5 Camping in Boulder Basin

I completely forgot to enter this!

We decided we needed to go camping for 4th of July weekend, so Rodney made a reservation on Reserve America for Boulder Basin. He only made it a few weeks in advance, so was pleasantly surprised to find one of the better camp spots available. It actually turned out to be the same one we stayed at 2 years ago!

We drove up Thursday afternoon and set up camp about 6:00 PM, cooking a quick dinner before nightfall. The next morning, we hiked to the fire lookout, then headed into town to look up an old boss of Rodney's. He runs a couple stores in Idyllwild and one in Palm Springs. We found him and arranged to meet him for lunch on Saturday, then went and bought a America the Beautiful Pass, so we can persuade ourselves to visit more National Parks, Monuments, and Forests for the next 12 months. After some short hikes that kept ending at the wilderness area, so we couldn't take Ziwi, we headed back to the camp and read and relaxed.

The next day we got up, ate breakfast and then headed to the Ernie Maxwell Trail before joining Rodney's boss and partner for lunch. We then got to see their incredible house and enjoy some drinks on the patio, before heading back up to sleep for the night.

We got up and headed back early on Sunday to take care of tasks, just wanting to go camping again.