This is along the shoreline section of Olympic National Park. The sunsets aren’t always this dramatic, sometimes they are just gray and drizzly. But when it stops raining, it can be stunning.
Shore Pines and Sunset
Nevada Backcountry
This was another backcountry road trip where I was really glad to have a routing tracking GPS. Wandering around the border area between Utah and Nevada was fun when I could just keep following roads that wound around through the high desert … roads with no signage and dozens of crossroads that were unmarked. It would have been hard to keep from getting lost without the Garmin. Beautiful country, though.
Valley Fog
I really like watching valley fog up in mountain valleys as it changes and moves up the valley. It can be a constantly changing show. This is the North Fork Skokomish in Olympic National Park in November … this time of year (February) this same area can be a challenge to access due to snow.
Hurricane Ridge
We took a recent trip up to Hurricane Ridge (Olympic National Park) and were going to snowshoe, but a check on conditions showed there to be not enough snow for snowshoeing. The image above is at over 5200′ (1585m) and you can see all the exposed grasses. There’s still plenty of time to build up some snowpack to provide water for the summer, but it does concern folks. The valley running into the distance in the middle of the image is the Elwha River.
The image below is from where we turned around and walked back to the parking lot. It is looking west of the image above.
Henderson Inlet
Henderson Inlet is just outside Olympia, Washington and is one of the numerous inlets off of Puget Sound. This is looking northeast from the Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area … on Weyer Point, between Chapman Bay and Woodard Bay. The canoe on the left has a couple of baskets and a paddle on the inside … the baskets have oysters and blueberries in them (or depictions of such).
The image below shows Henderson Inlet from the other side Weyer Point, looking south.
Below is looking north again, showing the old dock that was used for the export of logs from back when there was a rail line (the Chehalis Western) running up to help feed the mills of Puget Sound. Notice how dense the pilings are on the dock … a requirement in order for being able to hold the weight of railcars loaded with logs and the engine.
