Year-End Camping at Burlingame - December 28-29, 2024

Heading up from Bradford

After last year’s successful year-end camping trip, we decided to do again this year. We had 9 for an overnight at the Burlingame Canoe Campsites – me, Bob, Chuck, Jose, Aaron, Matt, Jim, Burr and Joe. Usually for winter trips you have to deal with snow and ice, but for this trip we had rain and mud - steady drizzle with temperatures in the 40’s during the day and 30’s at night. 

I met the group at the Bradford Landing at 11:30 for the 3-mile trip up to the Burlingame Canoe Campsites. Once there, we decided to camp in the field again this year. We hauled our gear up from the river and set up camp. The tents went up first, then the tarps, then the kitchen. We got the fire going and enjoyed Jose’s chili for lunch. After lunch we sat around the fire until supper, which was Swedish meatballs with chocolate cake for dessert. We turned in for the night around 10:00 as the rain was picking up.

Camp is set up

I stayed warm and dry in my tent, and before I knew it I heard someone moving around outside. It was Bob getting the morning fire started. I reluctantly climbed out of my sleeping bag to join him. After warming up by the fire, I fired up my Dutch oven to make a batch of my grandmother’s cinnamon rolls. Bob cooked bacon, sausage and home fries in his Big Daddy Skillet, and I cooked Jonathan’s eggs-in-a-hole.

After breakfast we packed up camp for the trip back to Bradford Landing. Great trip and a nice way to end the year.

The crew at the morning fire

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