Camping in the Sierras

Plumas Camping Trip
Originally uploaded by jmoule.

Recently, my son John and I took my grandchildren Alexander and Nicky camping and fishing for the first time. We went to Plumas National Forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. John does wildlife surveys there, so he knows it like the back of his hand.

This was an extremely successful trip. The good news is that each kid caught a large rainbow trout. Each trout was about 17 inches long and I would guess weighed about 2 1/2 pounds. The bad news is that the kids have yet to learn that years will probably pass before either catches as large a trout again.