Hurricane Ridge to Cape Flattery
   
 
January 16
 
Early morning at the Port Angeles Inn and around Port Angeles waiting for the fog to lift a bit...
 
       
 
 
Beginning at Highway 101 in Port Angeles, one can make a spectacular 20 mile drive up to Hurricane Ridge, within the expansive Olympic National Park... "spectacular" being a grossly inadequate description...
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
There's a good relief map of the Olympic Peninsula at the lodge atop Hurricane Ridge...
 
I came upon a cross country skier on the ridge...
 
Starting the decent back to Port Angeles...
 
Back near sea level at Port Angeles...
 
West on 101 toward Crescent Lake...
 
     
 
Crescent Lake... along the south side...
 
       
 
       
 
   
 
The Russell and Blanch Warren mystery - along the above stretch of Lake Crescent, back in 1929...
 
Proceeding west on 101... then the Sappho Wooden Lady as I turned to the north on Highway 113...
 
     
 
Clallam Bay, on the Strait Of Juan De Fuca...
 
Proceeding westward along the Strait on Highway 112 toward Neah Bay...
 
     
 
Neah Bay...
 
www.makah.com
 
To reach Cape Flattery one must leave the State Road at Makah Village and travel an unpaved road for several miles...
 
     
Pacific Ocean in view...
The unpaved road ends a mile or so from Cape Flattery and a trail cuts through the forest to the Cape...
 
       
 
       
 
       
 
Cape Flattery is the extreme northwestern tip of the contiguous United States...
 
www.northolympic.com/capeflatterytrail
 
www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=120 
 
Tatoosh Island, off Cape Flattery... 
 
Facing north from Cape Flattery over the the entrance to the Strait Of Juan De Fuca, toward Canada... coastal mountains on Vancouver Island, BC...
 
     
 
Just south of Cape Flattery at Hobuck Beach...
 
       
 
A few miles east of the Makah Village...
 
Much of the Pacific coast at the northwestern tip of Washington State is protected, preventing a coastal drive. Accordingly, to proceed south one must backtrack out of Neah Bay on Highways 112 and 113 to Highway 101 at Sappho. Very few roads reach the Pacific coast between Shi Shi beach to the north and Ruby Beach to the south. Highway 101 South reaches the Pacific Ocean at Ruby Beach.
 
I put in for the evening at Kalaloch Lodge just south of Ruby Beach, where Kalaloch Creek empties into the Pacific Ocean. After my dinner I sat outside the lodge with a few of the locals...
 
       
 
I could hear the great roar of the Pacific beyond what seemed to be a substantial cliff at the edge of the lodge grounds, but darkness prevented me from gaining an accurate impression...