Day 10 cont'd on the western side and back

They are a favorite food for bears and are found more so on the west side.  They hire about 300 people (I am sure with Visas) who go out daily and collect them. It is very hard to buy a pint.  They are considered near RO be gold used for jams, candies, pies, syrup and pancakes, which by the way is really jam lime stuff over pancakes, not in pancakes.  AND they use a lot of corn syrup.  Note to self :  why don't we like corn syrup now?  We missed getting any this time (but I got 4 pieces today, day 11) for 20.00.  Less than satisfying.  Now I need to find cream.  Oh!  But I have some.  I forgot.
So once back in the park, it,again seemed much more commercial.  We tried to get to one of the trails.  We were cut off road closed) and routed to a lovely area creeping around to find a pull over area to look around.  In what would appear to be regular camping areas, these were restricted to day camping because of the bears.  Great, once again we didn't have the bear spray.  Lots of warnings about leaving food out and they also had a building for food storage when the area was open.  I, of course was really fascinated with this minutiae.  So we geared up for the walk, saw a weird sign we followed to an amphitheater, although one of Susan's colleagues said it could have been a sign for wifi.  I liked that too.  That led us to a wonderful cedar with a huge nose thT I had the R and dog pose in front of.  Gotta love all those huuuuge cedars.  That lef us atop a wonderful river that Lucy had a brief dip in.  We paused and admired the quiet, the whoosh of the river. The birds, the clouds and big trees. One huge one was uprooted and it reminded me of the circle of life amongst all the green and life of the water.  It had a wonderful root system.  As we moseyed along, we caught the trail  labeled no dogs, so withso with our tails between our legs we went back to the car to find something else to amuse us. Wecame upon a really large area of a gift shop, motel, scattered log homes and a eatery staffed by international folks with their names and countries in their  name tags.  Our wait person was from TurkeyTurkey.  Over lunch we further planned our attaxk, drove around and eventually found our way back hitting other sites on our side of the road.  We stopped to admire a littlish waterfall