Hiking on

Upper Dungeness Trail

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

We took advantage of the three day weekend to travel into the Olympics and see the spring runoff of the Dungeness River. The weather was pleasant and wonderfully warm in the sun. We had a picnic along side the river and found numerous flowers and mushrooms along the trailside. A great start to summer.

dungeness river

trail through the woods

trillium poking through the ground

orchid

While we found no morels (we found some growing at Dungeness Spit a couple of weeks ago) we did find what I believe is Discina perlata, Pig’s Ear.

Mount Zion.

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In need of some time in the mountains, I made a quick trip into the Olympics a couple of weekends ago to hike to the summit of Mt Zion. I left the trail head around 10 am and summited in about an hour. The views from the top were almost entirely clouded out (not quite so on the way up) but I found some calypso orchids along the trail and glacier lily at the summit. The orchid more than made up for the missed panoramic. The snow was almost completely gone, only a couple of spotty patches remained. The trail was in quite excellent condition – and well used – I was not the only one making the trip.

Heather Park Trail, an enchanted forest and views.

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Series: Sunset > Sunrise > Heather Park

After an early morning of shooting the sunrise I wanted to get up into the mountains and chose the Heather Park Trail as my access point because I needed something near the campsite and so I could get up, down and home for dinner.

trail through the forest

The trail starts through the typical NW forest though this one was both younger and lacking the undergrowth typical of the woods with which I’m most familiar.