Tag: Deer Park

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 East from Blue Mountain

View East from the summit of Blue Mountain

A quarter mile walk up an abandoned road takes you to the summit of Blue Mountain and a panorama of spectacular views. This is the view to the east, showing Mt Baker in the distance and Admiralty inlet in the middle of the image … this is where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound (also known as the Salish Sea). What looks like an island in the right middle foreground is actually the north end of the Quimper Peninsula … location of my home town Port Townsend.

Note: while researching the course of the lower Gray Wolf River, I noticed that Green Mountain is west of Deer Park and the road above Deer Park climbs Blue Mountain. My mistake … I have called it Green Mt for years. Oops.

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Deer Park Wildflowers

Olympic Harebell

We were hiking out the Slab Camp trail from Deer Park (after enjoying the view from the summit of Green Mountain) and saw these Olympic Harebell (top image). I had never seen (or at least noticed) them before. Very nice little flowers. In the same area, we saw these penstemon (below). While walking to the summit of Green Mountain, we saw the mountain blue bells (bottom).

Davidson’s Penstemon
Mountain Bluebells

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