Diablo Lake camping weekend

Diablo Lake is a glacier fed lake in the North Cascades National Park that we visited briefly when we stayed at a Treehouse nearby. We finally got a chance to go back a few weeks ago, this time camping right next to it! And this time around, the weather was just right - pretty warm (low 80s) but in the shade it was pleasant.

We originally made plans with our friends, Alisa and Alina, but the group expanded to some of their friends too so in all there were 14 of us spread across 3 campsites. We figure got assigned a bum campsite that wasn't level so it made sleeping pretty miserable but we spied a vacant site right on the water and the ranger let us move and that made for much better sleeping. We all had a great time -there were 6 kiddos between the ages of 5 and 11 and they all got along great! We all went on a nice hike to an overlook that had nice views of the lake, some of the adults also hiked to a nearby river, we splashed around and fished in the lake and had plenty of smores to last us until our next camping trip.

Scott's packing job.

Our original site was very shady and had little nooks and crannies.

We moved to a different site and set up our hammock to get water views!

Hike to the overlook

The water is milky because the sediment suspended in the glacial waters reflect sunlight.

Diablo lake

Scott and Evie fishing. They did not catch anything.

Mei and Julie kayaking

Lounging in the ice cold waters

The older girls braving the cold water

Our waterfront campsite

Kids playing Anomia

Smores

Nora celebrating her bday with hot chocolate and cake bites

Kids fishing

Nora and Landon became fast friends.

Look at that water! No filter!

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