Hitting the Highlands

This morning we awoke at around 8 and were surprised to find that we actually slept most of the night. My cold is gone into the coughing stages and Kris is feeling much better as well. We decided on a few more days taking it easy and then we will do our backpacking. We made coffee, had breakfast and headed up the mountain to another scenic area called Hurricane Ridge. The drive was around 45 minutes in the van but we made decent time up and were in the parking lot of the visitors center with only a handful of other cars. We changed clothing and headed off on the Klahhane Ridge trail to have a nice little walk. The trail meanders along a nice steady ridge that allows views back down into the valley which we drove up, and over the other side towards Mt. Olympus and even out to the ocean. The weather was gorgeous with warm bluebird skies and temps around the 70s. It was the first time in a while that we were comfortable in t-shirts and we even were wishing we had our shorts on. The walk was spectacular and we made 2.5 - 3 miles before our weakened lung capacity caught up to us. Once back to the visitors center we decided to come back down into Port Angeles and head west out to the Elwha River drainage area. We figured we could use this area as a stop over for the rain that is supposed to hit us on Sunday.

We entered the area around 1pm and scouted around a bit for a place to do some walking. We found a nice little camp spot in the Altair campground and once we were settled we both decided it was better if we got some more rest and napped a bit. We’re on vacation after all. So basically I’ve been sleeping and reading for the last four hours or so next to a glacial fed river that is running by in the background. Not bad if you ask me. Tomorrow I’m taking my beautiful wife to find a shower and then we will head towards the next destination where we will do a simple overnight backpacking trip. I’ll fill you in about that later.

I hope everyone is well out there. We’re glad to be back on the road exploring and we hope you’ll follow along with us! Talk to you later!