Let's go camping

We decided we would go camping like we did when the kids were little. We had a tent, sleeping bags, air mattress, borrowed coleman stove, pretty much everything needed to camp.


 We headed up north on 55, turned onto the Banks-Lowman hwy and then north up the middle fork of the payette to where silver crk rd forks east. We camped at the Silver Creek Plunge, a private campground on a forest service lease. The area was beautiful and our site was 20 ft from the creek.

The campground had a really cool natural hot springs pool. The warm springs bubbled right out of the rocks seen at the side of the pool. Nice dip but it would have been better if it hadn't been 95° when we got there.

Everything was great until we climbed into the sleeping bags and the temp plummeted. We were freezing all night. No sleep just shivering. I finally climbed out at dawn and got a bonfire going. We planned to stay another night but semi-fortunately the Tahoe broke down and we road in a tow truck back to Crouch.
We needed to rethink this camping.