Smoke Comin’ In

Recently we went for a hike up in the Hurricane Ridge area of Olympic National Park, which is at the opposite end of the park from the Bear Gulch fire area. The wind was blowing from the south, however and over the course of the couple hours we hiked the smoke blew in up the Elwha Valley (image center). On the return trip, I was stunned at how the smoke had built up (we had been hiking in the woods where there was no view to the south). Below is a photo from the same location, about an hour and a half later than the top image.

September 20, 2025 0

Forest Mist

The early morning in the Olympic Rainforest can provide views of mist and trees and ridges … my favorites. The best part is that in the Olympics (if you’re lucky), these morning mists can burn off by mid-morning and you can have a clear sunny day. This is the North Fork Quinault river … the river is over by the other bank at this point. It did turn out to be a sunny day, after about 10:30 AM or so.

May 13, 2025 2

Mist, Trees, Ridges

More of my favorite images with mist, trees and ridges. These are in the Quinault Rain Forest of the Olympic National Park.

Mist, Trees, Ridges 2 (with a new dusting of snow at the high elevations)

April 17, 2025 0

Quinault River, Upstream and Downstream II

These two images are taken from the same location as my last post … different days, different years, different cameras. These are taken with my first digital camera (an Olympus E10). The images are much softer … a lot less detail. I like the softness that gives the images, even though it does create limits to your editing (such as the strange edges on the clouds on the image above).

Again, these are taken from the bridge over the Quinault River just outside the Olympic National Park boundary.