Tag: Quinault RIver

Trail Shelters

Happy Hollow Shelter

The Olympic National Park has a number of shelters that were built in the 1930’s and later. They don’t get much maintenance and many are in danger of collapse under winter snows. They were originally designed for emergency use, or for those individuals who enjoyed the company of mice. Nowadays, they are just a scenic spot to have lunch … or to camp nearby. The one above is over 26 miles from the Elwha Valley trailhead, just above Chicago Camp … where most folks cross the Elwha and climb up to the Low Divide and drop down to the North Fork Quinault trail.

Trapper Shelter

Trapper Shelter is at 8.5 miles on the North Fork Quinault trail. There hasn’t been legal trapping in the area since the creation of the Olympic National Park in 1938 and the shelter is now just maintained for emergency use (if it gets any maintenance at all).

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Wolf Bar Camp

Wolf Bar Camp

Wolf Bar Camp is on the North Fork Quinault River in the Olympic National Park. This camp that is often used as the first night’s destination while hiking up the river, especially if you have had a long drive over to the Olympic Peninsula, so haven’t had an early start to the day. This is looking west and up into the Colonel Bob Wilderness Area.

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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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