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Our Spooner Lake State Park Camp Site.

Hello, Everyone. This is a quick update on our adventure to our new location for the Winter. We have left Spooner Lake, Lake Tahoe State Park area once again. We have had a great second Summer here at Spooner Lake. We were very fortunate to have been able to go back to Spooner Lake State Park for another Summer. Because of this Covid19 we were not able to head to Washington State. This Summer has been so different with Covid19 and other things going on. We have had such a busy and wild summer because of people’s behavior. The Covid has brought out the best and the worst in people. We had record breaking attendance and record breaking rudeness. Hope it gets better.

We are slowly heading to Vegas in a few days. We will spend about a month traveling and enjoying some good time off. Heading to Washoe Lake State park just down the road for 7 days, Hawthorn, NV for a few days, Long Street Casino a few days, then our last stop at Nellis AFB for 25 days. We then head to our hosting job at National Desert Wildlife Refuge, December to March. We will send a new update and pictures of our time and adventure there. After we are done in Vegas, we head to Washington State for our summer stay. We do hope this time it will happen.

Now is the time for Fall Colors of all the Aspens in our park. We are used to fall colors in NY, but this is the best they have of this area. Many people come from all over to hike all around Spooner Lake and up to Marlette Lake in our park to see the Fall Colors.

I want to leave you with some photos of some of our nice spots of this park. Fall Colors are doing well this year.

I did take these Pictures

There are a few people we work with that we worked with last year and we had fun working with them again. During our times working in the back country cleaning up the trails we would see much wildlife. For some reason we didn’t get a chance to see any bear for the past two years. Many visitors and our co-workers Byron and Brian have been seeing a momma bear with two little cubs.

These Pictures are from Byron Hibshman

The momma bear and her cubs.

Byron took to night pictures and colors of Aspens during the day.

These pictures are From Brian Montes

We went to Washoe State Park about two weeks ago to check out some of the camp sites, and spent the day there. They have a lake and a lot of wild horses all over the place. Lake is a little low because of a real hot summer and drought here. We are at Washoe Lake SP now and have an awesome spot with an great view…Wild horses throughout the park Here we are..

Okay I have to post a few more pictures of whats around Washoe State Park. Jodi and I went on a short hike today, Up a small mountain. Enjoy the pictures.

Wanted to leave some pictures of the Staff that we worked with at Spooner Lake State Park..We worked hard and we also played hard. A Great team we all were for this very difficult and unusual year. Going to miss them all..

From left to right / Steve M. Spooner Lake State Park Ranger / Brett H. Cave Rock State Park Ranger / Brian M. Spooner Lake State Park Tech / Byron H. Seasonal Employee with Wife Carol H./ and Jodi and Myself as Park Hosts.

So we are moving on and will update you when we get to Vegas.. Please take care and stay safe. As always, stay tuned and stay in touch and see where our next Adventure will take us…

The Bobble Head Travelers, Jodi and Mark See you Soon!!

Hello Everyone, It is the Bobble Head Travelers out in the Lake Tahoe State Parks having fun as we always do.

***Our Spooner Lake Home Spot, 7,000 feet in elevation. A nice Average 78 degrees during the summer..***

We have been here at Spooner Lake State Park for about 2 months now. We really do enjoy this area of the country. It is beautiful and we just don’t get much bad or nasty weather like most places in the states. We have to be very concerned about the forest fires, but that is about it.. Oh, and maybe a few tremors here and there. Nevada had a big earthquake about 4 months ago. A 6.5 Mag about 36 miles outside of Tonopah, NV. We had to travel North on Hwy 95 to get here and that road was badly damaged by that quake and had to get a quick fix. It was patched by the time we went through, but a week after they closed the road down to repair it the right way… A few after shocks were felt later that month. Never had I experienced a quake before this year. We even had a 5.4 hit just outside of Yuma while we were there and felt that one too. We are done with Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Flooding and Snow… We will take the 76 – 80 degree clear days every summer in Lake Tahoe area. As of now its like 116 in Phoenix and the Hurricane Isaias just hit South Carolina and North Carolina, New York and New Jersey, as it headed up the coast. Wishing everyone up and down the east coast the best of luck in this mother nature and pandemic crisis… Stay safe and be smart.

When we got here last year, we arrived in April, and had 5 to 6 foot snow drifts and 5 feet of snow all around the RV and all over the Park. When we arrived this year June 1^st there was no snow, but come 8 days later we got snow.. Really!!

We are doing trail maintenance and clean up of the park, small projects, Two other co-workers and I rebuilt a deck on one of the cabins we have in the back country, Jodi and another co-worker stained the deck. Jodi and I stained 9 memorial benches around Spooner Lake.

Before and After of Staining

The Park is going to be getting a new face lift starting this Fall and going on next Summer. A new visitor center and gift shop is being built, with restrooms, and an amphitheater and expanded parking lot. The park is busy enough to get all this done. So when we come back to Spooner Lake in the summer of 2022 it will be all done.

This area is just so beautiful, and just about every photo you take does not come out just “so so”, or just “okay”..They are Stunning…and yet still don’t do it justice. Here are a few…

The NEOWISE comet was a sight to see, I did not take any pictures or even had a chance to see it. Where our RV is, it’s surrounded with huge trees. I have some pictures that I found that were taken on Lake Tahoe, in the Tahoe area. I am not going to take credit for these pictures.

Here are three pictures. NOT MINE…

The bears are all over the Back Country here at Spooner State Park and they like to climb trees. We have a lot of Aspen trees here and see lots of claw marks on many of them. We still have not seen a bear yet here this year. But the year isn’t over yet, so maybe will see one soon…

We do plan on being park hosts here at Spooner Lake for years to come. We also plan on park hosting in other states for a few years for states we have not got a chance to see yet, like Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Washington. We were supposed to host at Federation Forest State Park in Washington this Summer before heading back to Nevada for a position at Desert National Wildlife Refuge for the Winter but Covid 19 messed up those plans. We were lucky to get back in at Spooner Lake for another summer. We found out that even if the Visitor Center at Desert National Wildlife Refuge is closed due to Covid-19, they said we will still be able to host there, because there will be plenty of work for us to do. So we are going to head there this coming winter… December through February, then we will slowly head to Washington State for Summer and hopefully host at Federation Forest State Park.

We do hope all are doing well, and doing the smart thing to stay healthy and away of the Covid Virus.. Wear the mask like we are supposed to and we should be able to kick this virus in the ASS…. Stay tuned and keep looking for updates on our travels….