Tag: Rocks

Big Rock

Big Rock

One of the things I like about living in the Pacific Northwest are glacial erratics. These can sometimes be large boulders that seem to be spread around at random … which is exactly the case. During the last ice age the glaciers carried these big rocks (or little ones) sometimes for hundreds of miles … and then dropped them where they were when the ice melted. Sometimes they can be traced to their point of origin by the type of rock or chemical compostion. The fact that there were this big rocks spread around was one of the reasons I ended up with a degree in Geology.

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Trail Benches

Trail Benches

The trail up Mt Ellinor in the SE corner of the Olympic Mountains (outside of the National Park) is one of the most heavily used in the Olympics. It’s a reasonable hike up to a spectacular view. There are three trailheads … One at the bottom at Big Creek Campground (a 6 mile hike with lots of additional elevation gain), one at the “mid-point” (a 3.1 mile hike) and the upper trailhead (a 1.6 mile hike) — all mileages one way. Those choosing the upper trailhead to shorten the hike miss some wonderful forest, including this bench-rock location. The boulder covered with lichen and moss is worth spending time with … and the matching benches are a nice feature … although when you’re hiking by yourself, they seem excessive.

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The Kootenai River

The Kootenai River

This is the Kootenai River in Idaho from the Kootenai Falls Swinging Bridge. It’s just off of Highway 2 west of Libby, Montana. As you can tell from the small section of sky in the upper left, it was a cloudy day… but the trail that runs across the swinging bridge is a nice way to stretch out the legs after a day or two driving (we were going from Seattle to Whitefish … a couple long days of driving).

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Bridge Creek

Bridge Creek

Bridge Creek is in the Lake Quinault area … and this was taken in the Bridge Creek Campground. I used a tripod and shot at 1/13th of a second, at f/16 and ISO 100 using my Nikon D850. I had gone to take a photo of a small falls that I had shot previously, but there were logs that had washed down and were blocking the view of the falls to where it wasn’t very photogenic.

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