12th Aug 2008
Golden Ears Provincial Park camping
Went for a 3 days 2 nights camping trip last weekend with a couple of my ex-bandmates and their friends. We’ve been to the Golden Ears before, it was an awesome experience so we decided to go there again. Unfortunately it turned out to be quite a bad experience… It rained for two damn days, almost like, non-stop. You would get 10 minutes of the sun, then it’d rain for another 30 minutes…etc. Luckily we did get SOME moment of fun for example at the stone beach (just like a beach but replace the sand with tiny pieces of stones) We hiked down some trail in dark around 12am, and reached this lake thing which was a very open area. The sky looked crazy with countless stars. We were even able to see the milky way, it was that pitch dark. We laid down on the beach, saw some comets, chatted for a bit, it was quite an experience. Plus the weather wasn’t cold at all and it was really comfortable.
The next morning we had SPAM lucheon meat and some noodle for breakfast. We then went down to another more sandy beach. It was raining (not pouring) and quite chilly, but then we thought we kind of have to do something instead of staying in the tent for the whole day. We brought two some inflatable boats, and paddle a bit out into the water. It was quite fun. We found a leftover turtle-looking inflatable boat near the shore so we had 3 boats in total for 9 people. We took turns to go out, some of us brought fishing rods to do some fishing out in the water but too bad there seemed to be not so much fish activity 
We picked stones off the beach for our stone-grill dinner for the night. We did stone grill again, placed some flat stones onto the barbecue stove and then put the food onto the stone. We did it at last year’s camp trip and we decided to do it again since apparently it miraculously turned ordinary food into the best tasting foods ever. We did a lot of different kinds of food this time, steaks, pork chops, sausages, mushrooms, eggs, beans, breads…..oh yea I was grilling a piece of bread right in the fire with a barbecue fork, it turned out to be SO TASTY for some reason 
This was really fun.
At night since it rained a lot our tent was soaked with water, which was REALLY messy. I had to use my towel to wipe off all the areas that got wet. I hate mess of wetness, especially when you are in the wild and all the gross muds and shit mixed with water go onto everywhere. The second day it rained even heavier so we thought we should leave a day earlier (we planned to stay for 4 days 3 nights). It was quite a bad experience prepping food and stuff under a water leaking covering. Most of our tools, food packages, and utensils were wet, even the folding chairs were soaked in rain. We had to cramp nine people into a really tight space to hide from the rain. Well, I guess even though it was messy still it was an experience. We got close together and it felt pretty cozy as we chatted and had hot drinks in a tight space in a really cold and wet day. Anyway, we had to pack up our stuff under the rain. It was extremely messed up and difficult to dissemble the tent as it was all wet and gross. I had the dirtiest hand and arms in about 5 years when I was taking the tent apart. We had to take the whole thing to the faucet near the washroom to clean it up a bit so we could put it back into the bag….argh, it was SO messy.
Overall I would rate this trip 5 out of 10. We did have some fun but still I just hate messing with the grossness when it rains.
Oh actually we did a little picnic trip the same day we were leaving. We went to another park in Golden Ears with picnic tables and views. We sat down and had some of our left over can foods and breads. After that we rented two 4-person metal row-boats for an hour and rowed out into the water. We had some races like trying to chase and hit the other boat, and splash waters to everyone on the other boat with our paddles, lol. That was fun, even though it got me all tired
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