Olympic Mountain Hike 07 Gallery

In July, Jan and I backpacked onto a small ridge just beyond Obstruction Point in Olympic National Park. For a long day hike we left the trail, dropped down and back up the west ridge of Moose Mtn. The weather came in on us and we escaped to the Elwa River valley.

Jan, heading out	Dave, heading out	Obstruction Point The Obstruction Point road, Hurricane Ridge is just behind the road.	Grand Valley Mt Baker behind Grand Valley and Moose Lake
Rocks	The Needles The Needles behind Moose Mtn (stitched panorama)	Mt Olympus Mt Olympus at sunset from the campsite - nice spot for happy hour, eh?	Heading Off Trail We went down then up the ridge behind Jan - Mt Olympus in the background
Fields of wildflowers "Toe Headed Babies" and Fireweed "Toe Headed Babies" and Fireweed	art on top Jan doing some drawing on the top of Moose Mtn.	Mt. Cameron Pontentilla with Mt Cameron	Nap on top Dave catches Zs on the top of Moose Mtn.
Pontentilla	Pond A pond near Obstruction Point - the straights socked in.	the ridge trail The clouds make it up from the valleys	Magenta Paintbrush magenta paintbrush, indigenous to the Olympic mountains
Elwha valley floor	Elwha Maple