Cheryl and I enjoyed 4 lovely days in the Olympic National Park. We stayed at the peaceful Quinault River Inn, a quiet small inn on the Quinault River. We took meals at the inn for the most part (refrigerators in the room and a community microwave available) and ate out twice at the Kalaloch Lodge and Salmon House on Lake Quinault. We had beautiful weather, though the sun made the "rain forest" awfully dry and it didn't have that typical lush look you associate with rain forest. The beaches were beautiful - wild and windy in the afternoons but very still and calm in the mornings. We were even treated to a minus tide on Wed morning. We had a wonderful time of fellowship and hiking a beautiful piece of God's creation together.
Our hikes: (I forgot to turn off the Tracks before driving on some of these!)
Quinault Lake loop near Ranger Station: 2.0 miles
QL map
Kalaloch Beach : 5.6 mi
K map
Hoh River 6.8 mi 1200 ft gain
HR map
Ruby Beach tide pools at low tide
Rialto Beach 3.7 mi
R beach map
Second beach 3.7 mi
S beach map
Kalaloch Beach
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| Kalaloch Beach |
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Venus and the sun setting at the same time!
Hoh River
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Hoh River trail and dandelion look-alikes
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Hoh River
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Ruby Beach, late afternoon
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Ruby Beach in the afternoon
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Ruby Beach, morning
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Morning on Ruby Beach
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Rialto Beach
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| Rialto Beach |
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We saw eagles on every beach...this one was picking up a dead rockfish
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Second Beach
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The 1.3 mi forest walk to Second beach was very pretty and well groomed
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Our Inn
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the Inn
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the river view by the inn
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pretty place to sit for awhile
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