RHH's photos with the keyword: hurricane ridge

The Hurricane Ridge Road is one of the most popular areas of Olympic National Park. It ends at a visitors' center with great views of the Olympic Mountains to the west. This photo was taken along the road at one of the viewpoints.

The photo is from Olympic National Park in Washington and from the visitors' center at the end of the Hurricane Ridge Road. Olympic National Park is a huge park with many different areas of interest, mountains, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, rainforests, seacoast, beaches, huge trees and wildflowers, elk and deer, mountain goats, birds, waterfowl and many other things to see. Hurricane Ridge and the road to it are one of the most popular parts of the park.

The view from Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. We have been there many times but not now for several years.

This is the Alaskan Shooting Star, Dodecatheon pulchellum, photographed on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park.

Only a few more pictures to post from the Olympics. This is the view north from Hurrican Ridge (looking back toward Puget Sound and the Straits of San Juan). Some of the wildflowers for which this area is notable are visible in the foreground, including the miniature variety of Piperia unalascensis, the Alaskan Piperia. The picture was taken by my wife late in the day.

I took this picture to show the dwarf form of the Alaskan Piperia (Piperia unalascensis fma. olympica) - the light green flower spikes - in its habitat on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. I am not entirely happy with the picture for obvious reasons. The other wildflowers in the picture are some I've posted recently, the bluish-purple a Lupine, probably the Subalpine Lupine, the red-orange the Harsh Paintbrush, the white cylindrical heads of flowers the Western Bistort with a dwarf Columbia Lily in the upper left of the picture.

The Alaskan Piperia, Piperia unalascensis, is a common and not very showy native orchid that is found along the Pacific Coast and across the northern USA and Canada. The plant can be quite tall, nearly three feet (80+ cm) but the flowers are tiny, around a 1/4 inch (5-7 mm). There is a dwarf form of this plant that grows on Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic Mountains that is less than a foot tall (30cm) and these flowers were photographed there.

This is another photo of my wife's, taken on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. The deer is a Columbian Black-tailed deer, Odocoileus hemionus.

This is a Columbian Black-tailed Deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, a subspecies of the Mule Deer that is found from California up into British Columbia. It is smaller than its cousin, the White-tailed Deer. This young buck was photographed on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park by my wife. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-olympics-first-day.html

Hurricane Ridge is on the north end of the Olympic Range and the Olympic Peninsula. This photo was taken early in the morning.

Photo taken by my wife.

Photographed in Olympic National Park at the Klahane Ridge Switchback Trail trailhead.

Photo taken from the Lillian Ridge Trail as the rain and sleet moved in.

In Explore August 19, 2009, #369. Fool-On-The-Hill has confirmed the identity of this bird, but suggested that the Blue Grouse has now been separated into two species, the Dusky Grouse and Sooty Grouse. Thanks, friend. These birds seem very unafraid of humans and this one stood motionless at the side of road and allowed us to walk to within a few feet of it. This photo was taken by my wife.

Taken from the car park at the visitor's center on Hurricane Ridge, one of the most beautiful mountain drives anywhere when the weather is clear, and sometimes very beautiful even when the weather is not clear.

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.

Taken on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park, Washington.

Two weeks ago my wife and I made a long (4 am-11pm) day trip to Hurricane Ridge. My wife took this picture from the top of the ridge near the visitor's center there.