Banks Lake

 

 

That's Amanda and Tom's sweet little trailer on the shores of Banks Lake last weekend. This is an annual May event with a group of other Methow families. They've done it together since the kids were babies, and now they're nudging the teenage years. Oh boy parents, hang on to yer hats. 

Banks Lake is a man-made reservoir near the Grand Coulee Dam in central Washington. It was a dry coulee, formed by the Missoula floods about 15,000 years ago. That's the origin of those cliffs in the background.  

Banks Lake is first come, first served dry camping (bring your own water) but that doesn't bother them a bit. When the weather cooperates, everyone has a great time. In the Columbia Basin, May can be either blazing hot or quite chilly. Looks like the weather was pleasantly in-between.

 That's Nova cooking up a big skillet of home-grown scrambled eggs.