West trip 2019 #12 Olympic National Park

Aug 22nd-24th 
    We left North Cascades NP mid morning and headed to Olympic NP.   Our destination is Elwha Dam RV park.  Arrive after 4 hours and setup on a decent site at end of the row with full hookups. 
Elwha Dam RV Park

Chainsaw carvings at RV park

Chainsaw carvings at RV park

Chainsaw carvings at RV park


   Once we setup camp and unhitched the truck, we went out to check the area and decided to do a short hike to Madison falls




The next morning we left early and planned a busy day.  Our 1st stop would be Marymere falls a 2 mile easy hike through old growth forest..

Big trees


Yep in the NW

Marymere falls



Next we headed to Hoh rain forest trail and Hall of Mosses a .8 mile easy walk.

Dancing plants underwater








And our last stop today would be Rialto beach.   It was beautiful but tons of logs all along the shore.



We picked up some fresh Salmon on way back to camp and chilled out the rest of evening with a great dinner and Kira got a long walk. Dogs not allowed on NP trails...
Roughing it....


Tomorrow we are headed for Mt. Rainier NP.

See Ya Then,
Tom

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