The Chronicles of John Trammell

While I was in Oregon after the camping trip to Yosemite National Park, my cuz amanda and I decided to head up to Washington state for a day and go to Mount St. Helens.  We first went to the Mount St. Helens visitor center, to learn about volcanoes, and the actuarial major eruption that occurred in may of 1980.   Once we where finished there, we took the 50 mile drive over to the Johnston Ridge Mount St. Helen Observatory, which is located just north of the volcano, where you can see the crater that was created from the 1980 eruption.  When we first got there, the volcano was covered my clouds, which we felt it wasn't worth traveling out there for.  We went into the Observatory to see a film, and learn about Mt. St. Helens.  After we went outside to the observation deck, the clouds where all gone.  Seeing this volcano, and the area that was effected by the eruption of 1980 was a sad scary feeling.  All the forest around the mountains was blown down....

From June 1st to June 6th, I went camping for the second time in a row to Yosemite National Park with my 2 cuz's and their family.  On May 31st, while I was at UC Davis for a 4-H event, my one cuz Amanda drove down to meet up with me in Sacramento.  The next day we took the 3 hour drive to get to Yosemite.  We arrived into the park at 10:00 and got into Yosemite Valley at 10:24.  We camped at the exact same campsite as last year, and same spot.  We stayed at the North Pines Camp Grounds spot 134, right next to a river that flows from Mirror Lake. When my cuz Amanda and I got to the spot, the other people using the site did check out yet.  We waited for about an hour for them to clear the place before we could settle in.  Once we got the tent set up, we walked down the river alittle ways while we where waiting for the rest of the family to arrive, driving up from Yuciapia.  They arrived in the early afternoon, and we helped them get all settled i...