Rough coast, rainforest and the Hurricane Ridge

Olympic National Park photo gallery

25. April 2023Categories: All | Photo galleries | USA

Nature fires the imagination: Tommy Farris seems to want to approach a giant 'moss dog'.

Olympic National Park in Washington, USA, impresses with its diverse landscape, from wild beaches to lush rainforests and majestic mountain peaks. A natural paradise for adventurers and nature lovers.

The road along the Sol Duc River seems to be lined with a wall of Red Alder.

Four of the Finnriver team in the taproom: Maude Eisele, Mahala Duff, Andrew Byers and Kelsey Dressler.

National Park Ranger Bill Baccus points a colleague in the direction of the weather measuring station we want to go to.

National Park Ranger Bill Baccus on the way to the weather measuring station.

Not a good idea to lie down against the harsh winds of Hurricane Ridge without eye protection: The high speed turns snowflakes into small ice balls.

No cycle path for the inexperienced: with great skill and balance, environmentalist John Gussman dashes through large puddles. I prefer to push my bike around the outside.

A Stellar‘s Jay near the Elwha River.

It is estimated that there are more than 100 different species of moss in the Olympic National Park. Along the "Hall of Mosses" hiking trail, almost all the trees are completely covered by thick layers of moss.

Nature fires the imagination: Tommy Farris seems to want to approach a giant 'moss dog'.

Ruby Beach: Some call them 'bones of the rainforest': these tree trunks were once washed out of the rainforest into the sea by uplifted rivers.

Green giant anemones and a ochre sea star in a tide pool at Rialto Beach.

Rocky beaches, steep cliffs, rugged beauty: there are many stretches of the Olympic National Park's 117 km coastline that are great for hiking.

Not much happening on Highway 101, which runs past the 117 km of coastline that just 20,000 people call home.

The view from Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point of the contiguous USA. From here, ancestors of the indigenous Makah people watched European expedition ships searching for the Northwest Passage.

Time seems to have stood still at Lake Quinault Lodge.

Early in the morning in the garden of Lake Quinault Lodge, this American robin searches for earthworms.

The rustic lodge from 1926 offers a majestic fireplace, rocking chairs and deep leather fauteuils in its lobby.

The countless trees, almost completely covered in moss, in the many lonely rainforests of the Olympic National Park always invite you to marvel and linger.

Keith Barnes, founder of Bainbridge Organic Whisky Distillery, in his study and whisky laboratory.

Evening view of the Seattle harbour area.

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