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Return to Celina Lake

4/18/2023

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Our campsite on Celina Lake, Hoosier National Forest
On Friday April 14th we took off on the Two Lakes Loop Trail, for the beautiful cliffside campsite on Celina Lake in Hoosier National Forest. This is a very popular site and to snag it on a spring weekend would be a real treat.  We made great time from the main trailhead to the campsite passing a few nice ones along the way.  However, even with our early Friday start, around 1:00 the campsite came into view and someone’s tent was already there. We missed it.
It appeared like a boater had set up camp and then departed. We made a wide circle not to bother this group and sat on the Celina Lake dam and had a snack.  We backtracked a couple miles to one of the sites we skipped on the race in.  We found a nice lake side camp with a great fire pit, good views, but questionable tent sites.
The trail in was muddier than we expected, the creeks while not difficult to hop across had a good bit of water in them too.  What really stood out was the wind damage.  A dozen or more trees had fallen across the trail due to the recent spring storms.  These large white pines either had huge trunks which were a bear to climb over or the tops laid on the trail making a wall of branch and needles.  However, these small challenges were a small price to pay to have an evening in the woods.
After much debate, we settled on a C minus site and pointed our head up hill.  We spent the afternoon resting, watching the fishermen and the cloud; several times it looked like we might get stormed on, and we even heard thunder.  We enjoyed a nice sunset and a cool evening around the fire.  We listened to the frogs and occasion coyote yips late into the evening. The sunset views on the west-facing site had us enjoying Golden Hour and appreciative of the site selection we had settled on.
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Wind damage on the Two Lake Loop Trail, Hoosier National Forest
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The forest coming alive in the spring, Two Lakes Loop, Hoosier National Forest
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Sunset across Celina Lake, Hoosier National Forest
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