Tag: Dosewallips River

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Dosewallips Falls

Hello All. Those of you who are regular followers of my blog may have noticed an interruption in my regular every-other-day posting schedule. The day of my last post (August 25th) my wife and I rode our eBikes up the Dosewallips River Road past the washouts and up to the old Dosewallips Campground. The image above shows the Dosewallips falls that sits about a half mile from the campground and is one of the attractions of that area.

We had a nice ride until the return trip when just after departing the campground, my bike hit a rock and the front tire kicked sideways and I left the road. Fortunately, I was only traveling 3 mph (5 kmph). However, the ground was not level and I dropped down a few feet (with the bike following on top of me) before stopped by a small alder tree and cracking 3 ribs on my lower right back. It was painful and I spent a few days in hospital.

I’m on the road to recovery, but am taking this time to reflect. My blog schedule is subject to review. I will let you all know what the result is. In the meantime, I will spend some time healing up.

Thank you all for you support. It means a lot to me.

PS Does anyone want to buy an eBike?

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The Dosewallips

The Dosewallips River

The Dosewallips River is one of the major rivers draining the east side of the Olympic Peninsula. The photo above was taken from the old car campground that is now backpack in only, since the road washed out over 20 years ago. (it’s about 6.5 miles – about 10.5 km) It is in the Olympic National Park, but the access road is in the Olympic National Forest. So, who’s responsible for fixing the road? Let’s argue about it for another decade or so…

Below shows the trail not far outside of the campground. It’s beautiful country and it’s too bad that it is so much harder for seniors to access these days.

Dosewallips Trail
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Fireweed

Fireweed

This was a photo I took in summer, but as I was going through some images the lines and the light on the fireweed against the dark background grabbed my attention. This is the Dosewallips River in the Olympic National Park. I was hiking the 6 miles into the old car campground that is isolated by a couple of washouts.

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Middle Dosewallips River

Middle Dosewallips River

On our dayhike up the Dosewallips Road/Trail, we hiked about 2.5 miles in. Our original destination was Elkhorn Campground … a drive in camp isolated due to the washout of the Dosewallips (or the “Dose” … pronounced (Doe’-See) road (Olympic National Forest and access to the Olympic National Park). We were almost to the entrance to the campground and saw an abandoned road running over towards the river. We followed that and came to a cement bridge across the Dose that I had never been to before (or at least since the road washed out). There wasn’t much on the southern bank except a brief hint of where the road continued … I identified it as Forest Service road 2353 and a map shows it running across the flats on that side of the river. Who knows when it was constructed … except it must have been for logging. One wonders if the road is reopened, if logging will resume in the Olympic National Forest sections.

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