Hi all. Greetings from the East Side of the Cascades.
Today is the first day of relatively clear weather. Since leaving my sister, Glenna's in Olympia on Wednesday, we traveled west on US-101 through Aberdeen, WA to visit Olympic National Park.... particularly the Rain Forests. Took a great 3 mile hike near Lake Quinault. Started out in "dry" conditions, but 15 minutes in it began to drizzle and became officially light rain in about an hour. I think most Washingtonians call it "North West Sunshine". It rained most of the day but by the time we drove into the Hoh Visitor Center the sun came out weakly. Was raining again when we got the the beaches on the North side of the Peninsula. Spent the night in Port Angeles. Next morning we headed for Hurricane Ridge with some great views of the peaks of the Olympic Mtns..... then, you guessed it--more rain.
We drove to Port Townsend yesterday and as we were boarding the ferry to Whidby Island, it started raining -- again -- and kept it up all night. Luckily, our friends Phil and Judy in La Conner let us in out of the rain. Today we headed up Hwy 20 to North Cascades National Park and spent the late morning hiking in Rockport State Park even climbing over a 5' recently fallen red cedar.
We are in Omak now and tomorrow we head out for Glacier NP.
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