4th of July Celebrations

We had a very fun and random 4th of July weekend! We left Thursday night after Brock got off work and headed to Cliff & Wade Lakes, which is about 1 hour from our home. We got there at 10:00pm and all three campgrounds were packed with random humans. We had no choice but to find somewhere else to camp for the weekend.

Quake lake was just down the road about 15 miles so we headed there to set up camp in the dark. We had no idea of what our campground or surroundings looked like and were pleasantly surprised to wake up to beautiful mountains.

Our campground was right next to the lake so we decided to go fish for a couple hours. The walk to the lake was beautiful and the lake was pretty in an Eerie way. Quake lake was created by and earthquake in 1959, so the trees sticking out of the lake from where the forest used to be is kinda creepy. We caught no fish our first day.

Earthquake Lake

This is the landslide from the earthquake, which created the natural dam for the river making Quake Lake. Pretty crazy!

Fishing Quake
More fishing=lots of fish!


We went out the 2nd day and fished and caught a bunch. They were pretty fat rainbows and of course I caught the biggest but Brock caught more.

We caught 11 total fish, that's hot fishing for us.
No, I don't like to touch the fish.





Hebgen Lake

Quake Lake is right next to Hebgen Lake, so the afternoon of the 4th we went and hung out on the beach for the day. It was really warm so the cool water was refreshing but too cold to get all the way in so we put our chairs in the lake and chilled.

Madison River Bike Ride

After our Hebgen Lake trip we went for a long bike ride to the Madison river where we fished and roasted hot dogs. I was nervous about bears the whole time and couldn't really relax.

West Yellowstone

After our bike ride we went into west to wander through the shops, to get some ice cream and picked out our spot to watch fireworks. They put on a really good firework show, I think we are going to make it a yearly spot for us to watch fireworks! Yes....I bought us these really cheesy 4th of July Old Navy Tee's. It was funny though, we liked it a lot.



Wade Lake

Even though we didn't get to camp at Wade Lake we decide to go and play there for the day anyway. Well, when we got there all the canoes were rented and it was rainy. So we just hung out on the beach during the rain breaks. Pretty scenery but kind of a lame experience, we'll try again soon.


I was trying to get a picture of us and Brock was still mad about a spat we had and this is how our picture turned out. Men are so emotional....hahaha. I thought this was funny and I had to post it.


Our whole weekend was really random and un-planned, that's how we like it. "Flying by the seat of our pants" as my mom always puts it! Hey, it's an advantage of not having kids.