Olympic High Divide, July 16-20 2005
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Goats grazed everywhere as the sun set slowly.
Left: Kris caugh a cool silhouette shot of me at sunset next to a dead tree.
Right: The moonrise over Olympus was very cool...we couldn't get enough pictures.
We made it back down off the high divide the next day, and down to Deer Lake.
We made such good time that we had a whole afternoon to setup last-camp and stroll around the lake leisurly.
Left: Me setting up camp.
Right: Kris marvelling at some waterfalls down in a valley below our cliffside trail.
Left: Sol Duc Falls were our last major stop on the way out of the woods the next day.
It's a 3-chute falls that comes swooping through an outcropping in the vally
seemingly sideways, so you can take pictures from various directions.
One is from the bridge over the valley, and the other is looking back toward the bridge.
Right: Hard to capture the scale, but Kris is very close and above the falls
Kris's great shot of the falls.
Left: We got to wash up in Port Angeles before heading up for a final evening stroll
in another part of this enormous National Park... Hurricane Ridge.
What could be better than spinning in wildflower fields among snow-capped peaks??
Right: Kris caught our shadows on the grassy hillside as we wandered back down the mountain.
Left: The next day we hopped a ferry accross to canada... and on the way the weather was so clear we could even see Mt. Rainier again in the distance.
Right: The name of the ship (and its lifeboats) was "Queen Of Saanich"
Vancouver-visit pictures to come... but this is a parting view of the straights of Juan De Fuca as we drove back to the airport
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