Category: Olympic Mountains

Mt Baldy

Mt Baldy

This photo was taken from the Slab Camp trail out of Deer Park. The trail is one of my favorites, since the trailhead starts up in the subalpine area … one of two locations where you can access the high country in the Olympic National Park by road. The other road goes to Hurricane Ridge and is paved … and has many more visitors. I prefer Deer Park due to the fewer visitors … a result of the 8 miles of narrow, winding, steep dusty/muddy road.

The valley below is the middle section of the Gray Wolf River.

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View of Anderson Glacier

View of Anderson Glacier

Towards the upper end of the Enchanted Valley Trail up the East Fork Quinault Trail in the Olympic National Park is Anderson Pass. Across the pass is the West Fork Dosewallips valley and trail. This is a heavily used combination allowing a fairly easy crossing of the park. Mt Anderson it the central peak in the image here with Anderson Glacier. This view is from a spot still a couple miles below Anderson Pass.

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Quinault River Views

Quinault River (Downstream)

I have published shots from this spot before, but I was there last week again and took these from the middle of the bridge that connects the North Shore Road and the South Shore Road. While the river looks well behaved here, it recently washed out the South Shore Rd. That means a longer drive on a road that has foot deep potholes in places to get to the East Fork Quinault Trail. It is also a special treat to visit one of the major temperate rain forest valleys with such wonderful sunny weather.

Quinault River (Upstream)
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Hurricane Ridge

View from Hurricane Ridge looking South

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.

View from Hurricane Ridge looking west

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