The other day I explained to Carmen why swimming in open-water is so much more fun than swimming in a pool. Open-water provides a sense of accomplishment...more like hiking a trail or climbing a mountain. When you have swam in a lake or river you have explored, and more fully experienced, it than simply looking at it.
Most of these swims were with my girls Aja (9) and Anna (7). Carmen and our littlest, Liv (5) swam with us if the water was warm enough. ;-)
My favorite? Hard to say. Probably, #20 the glacier-blue waters of Diablo Lake were breath-taking (in beauty and it was the coldest). Which one would you like to swim in?
June
1. Cle Elum River
3. Clear Lake (near White Pass)
4. Falls in Mount Rainier NP - Christine Falls?
July
5. Lake Easton (bridge jump with Aja!)
6. Latourell Falls
7. Fairy Falls
8. Oneonta Gorge
9. Lake Sammamish (June, July, August...this is my home)
10. Puget Sound @ Deception Pass
11. Grand Teton Glacier Melt
August
13. Stillaguamish River (near Jordan, WA)
14. Farmington (Utah) Pond
15. Dewey Lake @ Mount Rainier NP
16. Skykomish River
17. Eagle Falls near Levenworth, WA
18. Lake Chelan
19. Methow River near Winthrop, WA
20. Diablo Lake near North Cascades NP (including one last bridge jump)
