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North Fork Skokomish Rapids and Loop Trail

N Fk Skokomish Rapids

The North Fork Skokomish valley has some of my favorite hikes. The starting point is at Staircase Ranger Station and Campground at the southeast corner of Olympic National Park and access is open year round … except when the snow has closed the road. But since the elevation is less than 1000 feet (305m), that isn’t too often. The rapids are striking enough that they have built a loop trail of about two miles starting from the ranger station and crossing the river on a very nice bridge about a mile up the river. The image below shows a section of that trail.

Staircase Rapids Loop Trail
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Forest Floor

Forest Floor B&W

I take a lot of shots of the sky … cloud formations, etc. But I also like to take photos of what’s under my feet (or at least near my feet … wouldn’t want to give the impression that I walk all over flowers and other plants). These are a couple of forest floor photos that I like. Both are from the North Fork Skokomish river valley in the Olympic National Park.

Forest Floor Color
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Bridge Creek

Bridge Creek

Bridge Creek is in the Lake Quinault area … and this was taken in the Bridge Creek Campground. I used a tripod and shot at 1/13th of a second, at f/16 and ISO 100 using my Nikon D850. I had gone to take a photo of a small falls that I had shot previously, but there were logs that had washed down and were blocking the view of the falls to where it wasn’t very photogenic.

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