One of the cool things about keeping a DayOne journal is that every day I go in to make an entry, it shows me the entries (and pics) from that day in earlier years. Seventeen years ago today I camped at one of the more memorable lakes I have ever visted, Muncho Lake in northern British Columbia. I remember that it was almost the summer solstice and it was light out very late. I believe we played catch with a football by sunlight at close to 10:30 pm.

We visited Muncho Lake on our way from Portland to Anchorage, Alaska, a drive I think we made in about 9 days. That was a bucket list road trip for me and it didn’t disappoint. Being that far north at the start of summer was fantastic (save for the hungry squeeters).

Fun fact: British Columbia is bigger than California, Oregon, and Washington combined.