(A) Jacob Camps at Mt. Baldy

	Bridgeport All packed and ready to go. Note that Jake is fully equipped as a woodsman (hatchet on belt). Yes, the Jeep is filled nearly to the top. That is it was until it wouldn't start! What lousy timing. A quick check revealed that the battery was fine, must be the starter. That project will just have to wait until we return. (07.04.99)
	Bridgeport Okay, lets pile everything into the BMW. And did it fit? Almost, I think we only lost the bucket. (07.04.99)
	Manker Flats We setup camp and got ready to leave for fireworks while Jake explored the mountainside. Fortunately, many of the weekend campers were leaving as we got established leaving us without neighbors. This is the campsite that Jake selected on an earlier visit with dad. (07.04.99)
	Manker Flats Jake's back! Time to drive down to San Antonio Dam and watch fireworks. (07.04.99)
	Jake and David went up the mountain to explore an abandoned ski lift engine station. Two Ford tractor motors were still there with a couple jack shafts and pulleys. Everything else was long gone, including all but the stone portions of the building. The fireworks from the dam were wonderful, the most fireworks anyone of us had ever seen at one time! There must have been as many as eight aerial displays, most going at the same time. The area around the dam looked like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, cars, trucks, and lots of lawn chairs. It was a grand time. Unfortunately, my inexpensive digital camera doesn't have a flash, and therefore I don't have any 'after dark' photos to share. Maybe next year. When we returned to camp we built the fire and cooked hot dogs, toasted jumbo marshmallows, and made s'mores. It had cooled off into the 60's and the fire was much appreciated.