RHH's photos with the keyword: obstruction point

The photo is from Lillian Ridge along the trail to Grand Lake in Olympic National Park. The trailhead is at the end of the Obstruction Point Road, a narrow gravel road that is usually note snow free until July. The flowers are a Potentilla (Cinquefoil) species. This area is one of our favorite places in Olympic National Park.

We've been away for several days. We've been staying with our son and daughter-in-law in the northwest corner of Washington and my wife and I took a few days to travel to Olympic National Park on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. We took the ferry across to the peninsula and then traveled to the far west part of the park before working back to the north part of the park. On our way west, this was our first stop, Lake Crescent. We drove up the east side of the lake looking for orchids and stopping for photos. From there we went on to the Hoh Rainforest (first inset), a temperate rainforest on the west side of the mountains, one of three rainforests on the west side of the Olympic Mountains, and the most easily accessible of the three. At the Hoh we hiked the Hoh River River trail to Mineral Creek Falls, an easy hike of six miles out and back. Finished hiking there we drove further south to Ruby Beach (second inset) on the Pacific Ocean and walked the beach there for another five or six miles. We had our supper there as well and watched the sunset from the beach before heading to the town of Forks. The next day we drove around to the north part of the park and first explored part of the Sol Duc area before going on to Hurricane Ridge. From Hurricane Ridge we drove to Obstruction Point by way of an eight mile rough road and hiked the Grand Valley loop by way of Lillian Ridge (third inset), a strenuous hike of eleven miles with four thousand feet of elevation loss and gain. We spent the night in Port Angeles and then drove up the Deer Park Road, another rough gravel road, this morning and hiked to the top of Blue Mountain, a short hike with spectacular views. After driving back down we caught the ferry in Port Townsend and are "home" once again at our son and daughter-in-law and will be here until Monday when we return to Spokane.

This is Lillian Ridge, the area we hiked near Hurricane Ridge in the Olympics. Our trail is visible in the foreground and this was where we lost about 4000 feet of elevation in several miles all of which we had to make up again as we hiked out. We had hiked along the ridge and were on our way to Grand Lake.

This picture was taken out of the car window by my wife. We were on the Obstruction Point road southeast of Hurricane Ridge in the Olympics when we saw the deer along the the road. They showed little fear of the car or of us and even "posed" for a picture.