The A-MAYES-ING Adventure: Through Washington and to Montana

On June 14th (Day 19) we packed up our campsite and headed east towards Brewster, WA where we'd be staying the night with one of Rollin's friends from high school!  We drove south of Seattle and got to see Mount Rainier!!  The next day, June 15th (and Day 20) we headed to Glacier National Park!!!

Crescent Lake early in the morning.

Going over bridges near Seattle.

I don't know why, but this is the ONLY picture I took of Mount Rainier!

This is the next day when we headed towards Glacier.  Eastern Washington is pretty barren!

We were in Idaho for an hour or less, but it was very pretty!

No we're in Montana!  

Until we got to the mountainous Glacier area it looked pretty barren here as well!

Flathead Lake which is right next to the Glacier range!

My next post will cover the beautiful Glacier National Park!!

The A-MAYES-ING Adventure: Olympic National Park Part 3

On June 13th, and Day 18 of our trip, we slept in and then hiked to Sol Duc falls and Deer Lake.  It was a 7 mile round trip hike.  Afterwards we hung out at our campsite and rested since the next day we'd be leaving and heading east towards Brewster, Washington!

Here's the road through our campground!

Here's our campsite at the Sol Duc Campground!

What a cutie all decked out in his hiking gear!

And this is Sol Duc falls.

Deer Lake

Hammocking at our campsite.  Rollin thinks the lighting make this photo super creepy!

The view from laying in his hammock.  So beautiful.

The A-MAYES-ING Adventure: Olympic National Park Part 2

On June 12th, and Day 17 of our adventure, we woke up to see the sun shining through the trees at our camp.  We packed up our camp and headed north and then east along Highway 101.  Our plan was to go to the Sol Duc campground and find a campsite.  The Sol Duc campground is a first-come-first-serve campground so you can't reserve a campsite ahead of time online.  We had originally planned on camping at Kalaloch for all three nights since we were able to reserve a campsite there online ahead of time, but when we realized how much driving we'd have to do to see other parts of Olympic we realized camping at Sol Duc would be a more central location.  We arrived at Sol Duc Campground and found a campsite and set up camp.  We cooked lunch and then packed a sack dinner.  Our plan was to leave mid-afternoon and drive to Hurricane Ridge and explore that area late afternoon and early evening when the sun would be lower in the sky and the colors would be more dramatic!  Check out our pictures!

The sun rays poking through the trees!

Driving to the Sol Duc Campground.

Drove by this enormously long lake!

Crescent Lake.  

Hurricane Ridge.  My favorite thing we visited in Olympic National Park.

In the very left of the picture is Mount Olympus.  There are several peaks with tons of snow.  I'm not sure which peak is the actual summit.

Mount Olympus is in the center of the picture.

We hiked about 1.5 miles up to Hurricane Hill to get an incredible panorama of the area.  We could see into Canada!

Hurricane Hill is the hill in the distance!

I set my camera on a flat rock and then set the timer!

This is an incredible shot with the lighting!

This is probably one of the best shots I took on this trip!

I was sitting on the porch area behind the visitor center eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I looked up and saw this deer staring at me!!!  The wildlife is not afraid of people when you have food!!!

This cute little bird posed for me!