Tag: Quinault Rain Forest

N Fork Quinault Trailhead

National Park Building – North Fork Quinault

The building above is used to store food for pack animals used by trail crews. The North Fork trail is one of the heavier used … it’s often the trail of choice for Scouts getting a 50 mile hike in for a merit badge. The Scouts typical route starts up the Elwha and crosses Low Divide and then down the North Fork. The 44.3 miles (shown on the sign below) to Whiskey Bend is misleading, since for the last number of years the road has been washed out and it’s a 5 mile hike to get there from the Elwha Road.

North Fork Quinault Trailhead Sign
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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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Quinault River, Upstream and Downstream II

Quinault River, Upstream 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.

Quinault River, Downstream II
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Quinault River, Upstream and Down

Quinault River, Upstream

These two shots were taken from the middle of the bridge across the Quinault River, just outside the Olympic National Park (in the Olympic National Forest). The road crosses to provide access to the North Shore Road and the North Fork Quinault trail from the South Shore Road. It isn’t too far from the upper end of Lake Quinault and the whole area is in the Quinault Rain Forest.

Quinault River, Downstream
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Big Leaf Maple

Big Leaf Maple

This image was taken in the Quinault valley along the South Shore Road. This is in the Olympic Rain Forest. I was struck by what a wonderful growth pattern this old tree has … it clearly has had open area around it so that none of the limbs have been broken off. And a nice bench to sit on to enjoy it.

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