Fasser Family Blog

We love Mazama. Love, love, love it. The different climate from Seattle, the friends we have there, the cabin, the space, the neighbors, the river, the store and the friends we have over. We made a lot of trips over there this summer and had a blast. Some of the fun activities (chronicled in the pictures below) included:

• Our first trip to the pool in Twisp
• The Mazama Mom’s Weekend with all of the kids
• A rafting/tubing trip from the cabin down to the Mazama Country Store
• Disco party in the garage, under the party lights (new boom box!)
• Michelle’s birthday dinner
• Scott and Jackson cutting down their first tree (first two trees that is)
• Lindsay and Scott doing our first overnight camp out Louis Lake (catching fish in the AM!)
• Our neighbors Spruce and Mary visiting the Methow Valley for the first time
• Another dinner and disco party
• Our annual trip with David, Nancy and Roman Harto to the Winthrop Rodeo
• Meeting Kim and Steve who just bought the North Cascades Basecamp – Wonderful people and a great spot for lodging in the Methow Valley – Mazama

Enjoy the photos!

Our annual boyz hike took us into the deep into the Northeastern Hills of the Cascade Mountains – Lyman Lakes – courtesy of our planner this year Eric Plateau. The hike included a drive to Chelan, some excellent Chicken Fried Steak at the Apple Cup Diner, a boat ride on Lake Chelan to Lucerne, a school bus ride 11 miles in and up to Holden Village and then 9 miles on the trail. The journey to the trail head was really fun and interesting and had it’s own set of stories.

However, the jewel of the trip was the hike. From Holden Village, we passed an old copper mine, dozens of waterfalls, hundreds of mushrooms, boulder fields, forest floor, long vista, Hart Lake (for lunch), streams, bridges and very few other people. It was an incredibly beautiful hike despite getting rained on the last 4 miles. Fortunately, we had incredible weather for the next two full days we were there and then had rain on the way out – our timing was stellar.

Once we hit Lower Lyman Lake – the beauty only went up – literally – to upper Lyman and the Lyman Glacier. The usual activities occurred – eating, drinking, fishing, Frisbee golf, day hikes, glacier snow gathering and wild animal stare-downs (marmots and deer mostly).  Eric and I were fortunate enough to hook some trout in Lower Lyman, Greg and I donated disc’s to the mountain Gods and Dave got to spend a dry night at Rebel Camp.

Below are my photos from the trip. Next year it is Dave’s turn to pick and based on early discussions, we’re going back to the Olympic Peninsula. We’ll regale you with the gory details at our next poker session. Cheers.