These photos show one of the more difficult photo situations that I regularly encounter. The top photo shows a level section of the Dosewallips Trail (on the east side of the Olympic Mountains). It appears to be running uphill due to normal perspective looking into the distance.
The photo below is the same trail on a section that climbs up around a washout. It is really quite steep (thankfully not too long, however). It’s really quite difficult to get a photo that “feels” as steep as it is.
Hi Allan,
Nice photos. Do you ever run into bears or cougars on the many trails you walk? I was in south eastern Alberta last week, in a lovely campground, looked down the road one evening and saw two cougars…well, I saw two pairs of red eyes. There are no bears there, so it was cougars.
Was that in the Cyoress Hills? I lived near there for a decade and there are black bears, cougars and wolves in that area, as well. Cheers.
Thanks, Lynette.
Hi Vicki.
Since I almost always hike in the Olympics, I don’t worry about bears much. I see them fairly often, but they aren’t grizzlies. And they usually run away. The closest I’ve got was coming around the corner of a ridge along a trail up from Hoh Lake. There was a bear standing on the trail about 5 feet from me. I was too shocked to get my camera fast enough before it disappeared down the hillside.
I’ve only seen a cougar once … from a long way aways.
A bobcat once in the car coming down from Deer Park.