Brandee and I took off for the Olympic peninsula on Friday in hopes of escaping the city for a while in exchange for a nice relaxing time out on the peninsula. So we set out and the plan was to do the high divide loop on Saturday. 35oo' gain, 18 miles. Wow, I thought this was supposed to be relaxing. With an early morning breakfast at the B&B we were on our way. With a beautiful day the day before, we were hoping for the same on Saturday. Too bad it wasn't so. Cloud cover prevailed and I think it was a good thing, the precipitation that we had was frozen, and as such we didn't get wet. You can se
e the wind blown ice on the trees.... at least it made for some nice scenery, if the colors weren't enough. We made good time throughout since there was little point in stopping since we would have frozen (we weren't expecting sub freezing temperatures). With that said, we ended up hiking on a beautiful ridge that was full of fall colors. For most of the time we were below the clouds (as opposed to in them or above t
hem) so we had those spectacular colors, but never did get glimpses of the mountains. Half way through we took a wrong turn and ended up going down to a lake. I think we just wanted a longer hike with extra elevation. It was a good excursion because we ran across a couple of bears foraging on the huckleberries in prep for their long winter and some more colors. All in all we actually went 20 miles and 44300' with our various detours. Beautiful hike but I would have loved to have seen the bailey range and Mt Olympus. I guess we'll have to wait for another sunny day.
Brandee and I took off for the Olympic peninsula on Friday in hopes of escaping the city for a while in exchange for a nice relaxing time out on the peninsula. So we set out and the plan was to do the high divide loop on Saturday. 35oo' gain, 18 miles. Wow, I thought this was supposed to be relaxing. With an early morning breakfast at the B&B we were on our way. With a beautiful day the day before, we were hoping for the same on Saturday. Too bad it wasn't so. Cloud cover prevailed and I think it was a good thing, the precipitation that we had was frozen, and as such we didn't get wet. You can se
e the wind blown ice on the trees.... at least it made for some nice scenery, if the colors weren't enough. We made good time throughout since there was little point in stopping since we would have frozen (we weren't expecting sub freezing temperatures). With that said, we ended up hiking on a beautiful ridge that was full of fall colors. For most of the time we were below the clouds (as opposed to in them or above t
hem) so we had those spectacular colors, but never did get glimpses of the mountains. Half way through we took a wrong turn and ended up going down to a lake. I think we just wanted a longer hike with extra elevation. It was a good excursion because we ran across a couple of bears foraging on the huckleberries in prep for their long winter and some more colors. All in all we actually went 20 miles and 44300' with our various detours. Beautiful hike but I would have loved to have seen the bailey range and Mt Olympus. I guess we'll have to wait for another sunny day.
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