Living Along The Way

We've unplugged BOB and moved south to Kelso, Washington where we can make day trips to numerous attractions.
Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument 8/8/05	View from ~5 miles away.	Smoke signals.	Johnston Ridge Observatory.	Trees blown 17 miles.	Many viewpoints.
Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument 8/8/05	Yes, I found flowers.	The Prairie Lupine.	Coldwater Lake.	Rock slide.	The Hoffstadt Creek Bridge.
Olympic National Park offers visitors many environments. Lake Crescent is a beautiful, glacier-made lake. The Lodge has a restaurant, lodge rooms, cabins, and standard motel-type rooms in a spectacular setting. The Sol Duc/Hot Springs Resort area has many trails and hot spring-fed pools at the cabin-type hotel.
Soleduck Trail Olympic National Park 8/4/05	Example of a trailhead sign.	Love the tall trees.	Soleduck Falls.	More along trail.	Cabin in the woods.
Lake Crescent Olympic National Park 8/4/05	Another beautiful day.	Lunch at the Lodge.	Nice spot to read a book.	The shore along the lake.
The Forks, Washington Logging & Mill Tour.
Logging & Mill Tour Forks, Washington 8/3/05	First stop, a mill.	Hearing protection required.	Laser-guided saw.	Shingle mill.
The Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park averages 140 inches of rain annually. The abundance of rain, mild winters, and cool summers produce giant conifers--Sitka spruce and western hemlock with a few Douglas Firs in the less dense areas. The forest also supports more than 130 species of mosses, lichens, liverworts and ferns that costume the trees, adding to the forest's character.
Hoh Rain Forest Olympic National Park 8/2/05	A walk among very tall trees.	Learning about nurse logs.	Another great example.	John adds perspective.	Underwater plants.

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