Dinkey Creek

While we were up at Shaver Lake, I had to take Jamie to a place I spent a lot of time as a kid. We spent a few summer vacations at a place called Dinkey Creek. It's about 13 miles up the road from Shaver and my Grandpa has been taking my Dad there since he was a kid and my Dad took us there when we were kids.

We spent a lot of time playing in the creek. We would bring inflatable rafts to float around in and walk all over the rocks trying not to slip.

We got there early and took a small hike up the creek. It really is beautiful and at this time in the morning there wasn't too many people around.

The rocks are pretty massive!

This is one of the "little falls" we used to slide down as kids. We would wrap black trash bags around our waists and then slide down. They are horrible for your bathing suit as many kids found out when they eventually created holes in them. The water is freezing though. It's all melted snow. We walked across a shallow piece to have lunch on the other side. We had water shoes on so we wouldn't slip but the water was ice cold. It's much colder than I remember but I guess as kids you are just happy to be playing in the water.

Later in the week, my parents, took a day trip to explore the lakes further up the mountain. It was a very steep, narrow one way road. They had to maneuver around cars coming down the mountain as they drove up and again on the way down. My Mom is afraid of heights so it was a challenge for here to make the trip but she did just fine. Further up the mountain there were still snow packs along the road and my Parents packed one of the small coolers full of snow to bring down to us. My Dad created two small snowmen on our campsite. They didn't last very long but it was pretty cool.