Category: Hurricane Ridge

Winter Elwha Valley Views

Winter Elwha Valley View 1

These were taken during the recent trip I made to Hurricane Ridge. The view above is looking south down the Elwha River valley at the heart of the Olympic National Park. I have hiked the valley a number of times, and it’s as lovely from ground level as it looks from this elevation. Below is looking more west towards the south end of the Bailey Range. The close valley is the Elwha and on the other side of the ridge running along the other side of the Elwha is Long Creek … the ridge is Long Ridge.

Winter Elwha Valley View 2
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Sun Dogs

Sun Dog 1

We went for a walk up at Hurricane Ridge (in Olympic National Park) the other day. There wasn’t enough snow to snowshoe … we’ll be in a drought this summer, if we don’t get more snow up in the mountains. But there were a couple of sun dogs … I always like them dogs. The one below also shows some of the central Olympics. Dodger Point is the closest one with the ridge running up to it.

Note that I processed these in LIghtroom and enhanced the contrast to make it easier to see the sun dogs.

Sun Dog 2
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Chipmunk and Rabbit

Townsend’s Chipmunk

And I bet some of you were expecting a photo that had a chipmunk and a rabbit in the same image. Sorry about that. I’ve never seen a rabbit climb a tree, either. Anyway, I’m just working my way through images and doing some editing and clean-up … plus adding some of Lightroom’s adjustments since I took some of these several years ago. I would recommend doing that every so often. Adobe really does make significant changes to their editing tools now and then … it makes it worthwhile to pay the subscription fee to get all the updates (unlike some company’s that charge the subscription fee and in return you get no new features).

Rabbit

I think this is the native snowshoe hare, but I’m not sure it hasn’t been hybridized with some domestic variety. But it’s a cute little bunny anyway, yes?

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More Views from Hurricane Ridge

Bailey Range from Hurricane Ridge

Just a couple of winter shots from the Hurricane Ridge of the central Olympic Mountains in the National Park. Even on some cloudy days you can get glimpses of ridges and peaks. I actually like clouds in photos of mountains to break up the solid blue sky and provide another layer of subject. The shot below is taken looking to about the same area. It’s got a much different feel, doesn’t it?

Looking West towards the Bailey Range from Hurricane Ridge
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