Thomas Mountain, July 23-25, 2010

4th of July weekend was spent in Lake Havasu pretty similarly to Memorial Day weekend; beer, a shocking display of American Flag bikini's, pasties and other American paraphernalia and a healthy helping, the famous Harvey family hospitality...and their Pina Coladas, of course.

 After surviving that, a much calmer weekend of camping at the peak of Thomas Mountain was a relaxing way to wrap up July. 

We caught the sunset on the way up and had just enough remaining light up top to make camp.  It's the perfect camping spot discovered last year on a camping trip when we knew we wanted to camp, but only had reservations for one night.  We drove to some unmanned specs on a map and found this site tucked up at the peak with not another camper in site - perfect for a big group. 

An unobstructed view, sunsets saturated with some distant wildfire smoke (yay California!) and a full moon didn't exactly hurt things, either.  On the last day we packed in and took the longer pass down the other side of the mountain into Hemet.  Much to the dismay of the couple other campers who decided to follow us, it was an extra hour and a half or more down a winding off road trail.  Fun for all :)