Maple Glade Trail. It’s supposed to be a humbling experience to stand amidst such giants in the ancient forests of Olympic National Park. Photo #1 by rachel_thecat
Olympic National Park. Photo #2 by Jason Pratt
This is Hall of Mosses Trail in Hoh Valley. Hemlocks are starting to grow on this stump. Photo #3 by rachel_thecat
Heart Lake. Photo #4 by Davis Doherty
Maples in Olympic National Park’s Hoh Rain Forest. 95% of this national park is designated as wilderness, a paradise for backpackers and hikers. Photo #5 by KevinM
Sol Duc Falls looks like the Garden of Eden. Photo #6 by Frank Kovalchek
Enchanted Valley, Olympic National Park. Photo #7 by ((brian))
Olympic National Park trees and roots in Hoh Rain Forest. Some of the trees in this forest are “old growth forest” meaning they are over 200 years old and some much higher than 30 stories tall and wider than two parking spaces! Photo #8 by Goldom
Road leading up to Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Park. Photo #9 by Frank Kovalchek
Rafting Class II+ whitewater river, Olympic Raft and Kayak on Elwha River. Photo #10 by Walter Siegmund
Olympic National Park has a 73-mile long wilderness coast that is a rare treasure in a country where much of the coastline is prime real estate. According to the National Park Service, “The rocky headlands, beaches, tidepools nurturing a living rainbow of colors and textures, off shore sea stacks topped by nesting seabirds and wind-sheared trees—all are a remnant of a wilder America.” Photo #11 by Urban
Maple leaves and sword fern cover the ground. Near the midpoint of the Hall of Mosses Trail near the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center. Natural features and ecosystems range with many rivers, lakes, glaciers and Pacific coast. The forests in this park include coastal, montane, lowland, subalpine and temperate rain forests. Photo #12 by Walter Siegmund
Downed cypress and child at Olympic National Park. Photo #13 by Paul Schultz
Big Cedar Tree and tiny girl. The photographer wrote, “National park service sign: Big Cedar – Western redcedar has been the art and sinew of coastal Indian village life. The trunk is house plank and ocean-going canoe; branches are harpoon line; outer bark is diaper and bandage; inner bark is basket, clothing and mattress. Tree size expresses climate — heavy annual rainfall, and the nourishing damp of ocean fog. In a scramble for growing space other tree species are using the cedar as a standing nurselog.” Photo #14 by woodleywonderworks
Lakes and mountains, an adventure lover’s dream. Water is but one aspect that defines this beautiful national treasure. Mount Olympus is the park’s highest peak and it’s located in the middle of the range. Rivers shoot out from the central mountains like spokes on a wheel. Photo #15 by ((brian))
The largest known Western Redcedar, in the world with a wood volume of 500 cubic meters (17650 cu. ft.). It is 53.0 m (174 ft) high with a diameter of 5.94 m (19.5 ft.) at 1.37 m (4.5 ft.) above the ground. Photo #16 by Wsiegmund
This is considered “coarse woody debris” in this mountain stream. Photo #17 by Walter Siegmund
Sol Duc Falls, a waterfall in Olympic National Park. Photo #18 by Kimon
Hoh Rain Forest has a mystical appearance with all the moss. This is considered a temperate rain forest where nature has decorated bigleaf maples with epiphytic mosses, ferns, and spike-mosses growing on their trunks and branches. Photo #19 by Michael Gäbler
Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park, Bundesstaat, Washington, USA. Photo #20 by Michael Gäbler
Dark at Ruby Beach. Photo #21 by John Fowler
The Kalaloch Cedar in the Olympic National Park, with a dbh of 599 (19,6 ft) cm and wood volume of 350 cubic meters (12,270 cu ft). Photo #22 by rachel_thecat
Amazing trees, texture and even fog in the Pacific Northwest. Photo #23 by Minette Layne
Like a dream at Lake Crescent. Photo #24 by Bala
Hoh Valley – Hall of Mosses Trail. Photo #25 by rachel_thecat
Coast Range Subalpine Fir groves in meadow. About 0.1 km north of Point 5471′ near the Klahhane Ridge Trail-Meadow Loop Trails junction and close to the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center. Photo #26 by Wsiegmund
True wilderness at Olympic National Park Forest on Hoh River Trail. Photo #27 by Ellermeyer
Spruce Nature Trail about 0.1 km from the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center, near the end of the loop. Photo #28 by Wsiegmund
A herd of elk cross the Hoh River on the western side of the Olympic National Park in Washington state. Photo #29 by Gene Bisbee
Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) on Olympic National Park Switchback Trail to Klahhane Ridge. Photo #30 by Miguel Vieira
This is a male coast deer, more specifically a Columbian Black-tailed Deer. Photo #31 by Walter Siegmund
This surely looks like a perfect day at Lake Crescent. Photo #32 by Tanya Little
Fantastic Fall scene at Olympic National Park. Photo #33 by Matthew Piatt
Hurricane Ridge is the most popular viewpoint in the winter. Photo #34 by .Bala
Pacific Ocean from Olympic National Park coastline. Photo #35 by pfly
Sun @ Rialto Beach Olympic National park WA, USA. Photo #36 by Kashyap Hosdurga
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wow..id do anything to go and take pix at these places like you ..beautiful
Anything? Would you agree to work extra hard doing something menial like be a server at a restaurant or a clerk at a store for 4 hrs a day 2-3 days a week for 1 year for minimum wage or more? Going to school for it ie., photography classes or environmental science If so than start imagining all the pics you can take? What your completely incapable of any mobile activity for what ever reason? sigh*sry* but Then I’m sure if you want it bad enough there’s a way! like talking to someone with the same interests.
Don’t mean to knock your comment but when i saw your comment the first thing that ran thru my mind like a roaring train was Do Something and go take those pics! I started on a journey that started with me saying the same thing.
Who knows what you might contribute to the world!
Settle down Jim…you are talented.
Jim you should take out your pms frustration on someone admiring pictures on the internet… it’s kind of similar to getting a gold medal at the special olympics, you might win, but you’re still a retard
I like it! People too often say/write things without thinking. I started hiking mountains 5 years ago (at age 45). I won’t quit until I am broken. Or dead. But being dead is kind of broken I guess.
Jim is being a little harsh, but I will say that a true Fiend always finds a way. These places are my crack. Everything in life is a choice between alternatives. We don’t always get to make the choice, but the strength of our desire always has something to do with it.
Get in your car and go. I spent the winter of ’85 there. I lived in the back of my Toyota pickup and lived on peanut butter. These pics bring it back.
Time to vote for representation that supports wilderness, National Parks, and wildlife. National Parks are threatened by “starvation” funding, encroachment from adjacent lands, erosion, poaching, noisy ATVs and snowmobiles, vehicle traffic, littering, vandalism, pipelines (one spilling in Yellowstone as I write this), GOP supported mineral/fossil fuel exploration and extraction inside and near parks, and just plain idiots who never go outside. If I earmarked my income tax (which is more than GE and GM pay yearly, I would choose Wilderness, National Parks, and Wildlife Refuge protection and restoration.
I love Washington State and North Idaho. I was born here and have watched total lunkheads flow in and destroy my homelands with their big tires, litter, saws, and bulldozers. Western Washington used to be a pristine place to hike and camp. Now your car gets broken into at trail heads, and your pack is full of trash you pick up on the way out. ATVs tear up and muddy stream beds, and most of the old growth has gone to housing developments where they once towered. This all happened in my lifetime.
Vote GOP and watch them sell the National Parks to the highest bidder. They will become like Las Vegas or Disneyland. National Parks, wilderness, and wildlife will be destroyed in the name of greed for 1% of America.
Look at those pictures again. Then think of a McDonalds on the Hoh Rainforest trail.
Republicans are probably responsible for more wilderness preservation due to hunting and fishing licenses and expenditures than democrats.
I’m sure your lifestyle has ruined or degraded something that some one else cared for.
Yes,we need to have places like Olympic,no one is trying to cut down them.
Lumber is a renewable resource.
Lumber is only a renewable resource with careful care, and looking at how well we’ve “resourced” it so far, you would consider it non-renewable. And once a park disappears, it is nearly impossible to get it back, and it IS impossible to get the same majesty – once you cut down a 500 year old tree, it takes 500 years to get a new one.
And I’ve no idea what the American political parties are like, but both of you should quit making something so serious into a political agenda.
And David, people are trying to get rid of wildlife. And they’re winning.
“Republicans are probably responsible for more wilderness preservation” This is not accurate. Olympic NP as a National Park does not allow hunting nor fishing. Olympic National Park was signed on 29 June 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and in 1988 nearly 96 percent of the park was designated as wilderness. National Parks are not automatically designated as such. I’ve spent literally months traversing and climbing in the Olympics. While the park may be protected, the wholesale clear cuts of 200+ y/o forest right up to the very borders of the park, and big enough to be seen from space, under Reagan/Watt took a herendous toll on the habitat. These giants were shipped directly to Japan as whole logs, very few jobs. Less than 2% of the US is still “untouched” wilds, but they are islands and as such are stressed continuously. Current republican stratagy is to return National parks to the states; an idea that would make anyone that finds nature as their place of worship, nauseous. Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. Lakota proverb
I could NOT say it better, or AGREE more!! And YES, some of us Do consider these places, and others like them, OUR PLACES OF WORSHIP. Help Keep Mother Earth Sacred!! PLEASE.
““Republicans are probably responsible for more wilderness preservation†This is not accurate. ”
Oh yes it is accurate. Republicans started the National parks, for example. Otherwise is mostly a lie by the cultural left, for the purpose of demonizing their opponent’s motives. Attacking the humanity of the right is *the* main weapon of the left. Realizing this has been enlightening.
I don’t think you can compare the republican party of teddy roosevelt to that of today.
Very well said!!
I really have to challenge the statement about the GOP being responsible for preservation or any other truly important thing on this planet when it comes to the eco system.pahleese! Let’s just start with Dick Cheney and Halliburton and work our ay down from there shall we? Hmmmm? Good grief! What’s really frightening is knowing that you believe your own propaganda.
There are hypocrites and destroyers on both sides, al gore has a huge diesel powered yacht for christ sake, there are environmentalists on both sides and people who think these places arent valuable because its ‘just moss’ yet pissing and moaning on the comment board is like pissing in the wind. If you care so god damn much, donate a buck or write your representative.
Pretty pics btw
Wow too bad you had to make it a political issue the destruction of our nation is coming from giving money away to the worthless trash in this country that can have as many kids as they want and live off government funding if that money wasnt going to the ghettos to support rampant drug use and prostitution it could be spent on the preservation of our parks but nonetheless beautiful pictures
your dumb. u really think people living off the govt. are getting enough $ to spend on drugs and prostitutes? some people are less educated than i thought. the government barely gives the people $ that need it desperately because they are unable to provide for themselves physicaly. what makes you think they would give drug addicts and such enough to pay bills (because u have to have a residency to recieve such payment) and go do drugs and prostitutes? it is not the lack of funding that is messing up the environment it is the people. if people realize this one day then maybe we can improve the natural balance of things. why do you think there are things like global warming? too much carbon in the air. caused by motor vehicles. dont blame the govt on this one although the govt is to blame for alot of really shitty things they arent for this one. blame the people that live there and travel there. either do something about it or stop bitching.
Wow… You have no idea. Work at a convenience store in a busy city. When you see mothers toting around their infant-12 yr olds getting whatever junk they can on their “EBT” cards, and then buying CARTONS of cigarettes with CASH… Then maybe you’ll understand what a failed system it is.
People do need to take it in to their own hands when it comes to our natural resources, but it wouldn’t hurt to have some gov’t funding as well. If you see trash lying on a trail, pick it up. Don’t just look at it and pass it by. If you see someone throw something down, stop them if you aren’t doing it just to sound like a douche-naturalist.
It’s not that hard. Stop complaining and start doing. You’re wasting way too much time passing blame on to everyone else.
“If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime.”
THE main problem of this country is the lack of education. An educated citizen will make and educated choice when it comes to voting for those who decide about our resources. Uninformed and uneducated voters are directly responsible for the destruction of our natural resources through electing officials who are just as uninformed and uneducated as the voters. Please vote, but vote responsibly, so our grandchildren may have a chance of seeing these protected places before they disappear under the chainsaws of Republicans.
I live off the government by getting prostitutes. How does that change that people do not care about the wilderness. If all the people who litter and destroy stay in the city getting prostitutes, the wilderness will be protected.
Well, I personally saw a mom’s accounting of how much she got on food stamps, how much she sold them for, and how much she spent on buying drugs. On the other side of the paper, her child drew a picture for the teacher and innocently turned it in. Not that all food stamp recipients do that, but some do.
While corporations and millionaires can get their money unethically, government aid recipients can also use their aid unethically and at the expense of their children. The whole system is rotten.
hooooooorahhhhhhhhhhhh! most excellent.
Wow! You’re so right about the way that the government gives away money to pay for drugs and prostitutes. If they held back some of our tax dollars it could be put to much better use, like teaching you to punctuate.
Here’s what I don’t get: we all live in this amazingly beautiful country, with so much to offer, and we’re all so desperately afraid of sharing even a little of what we have – but we are dedicated to making sure that we don’t provide access to reproductive control, because even though there isn’t enough to go around, it must be a sin to not want children until you’re ready.
I guess it’s no more strange than believing that, after squandering the beauty here on Earth, some cosmic being is going to think we’re still worth hanging out with. Me, I think we would ALL enjoy what we have more if we paid a little more attention to evidence and a little less attention to personal property.
Just go to Wally World (aka Walmart) any day of the week and witness the food stamp/WIC card trash…they buy steaks…I buy hamburger. Makes me puke.
You are a true moron
wow~~ wonderful! really wanna take a journey here~!
` Gosh! It’s beautiful
Wow some great images and definitely whets the appetite for a visit soon!
America the beautiful was the first nation to set aside massive portions of wilderness for posterity. I pray these reserves will always be available for our progeny.
Love this park. Nice pics! Thx.
and the cascades and all timber country in Washington state, but watch out for wildlife of all kind. twice I saw saskatwan, just driving down hwy. 101 near the sea. MIKE
Thank you so very much for these divine pictures. It is winter here is South Africa and everything is resting – thus leafless and on the verge of death – to bring us renewed joy come summer. So this was just such a feast on my eyes.
Venita
wonderful photos of a wonderful place, thanks
This is an absolutely amazing gallery. I feel extremely proud to call this place home and spend my free time out experiencing these areas first hand. Check out my website and if any of you will be in the area, I’d be glad to show you around.
And these pictures don’t even do it justice.
I’m so glad I had the privilege to live there for eight years.
WOW These photos are amazing! You are a really good photographer, thank you for sharing!
I WILL get married at Heart Lake, I will.
I dont understand. Some of the trees are years old. They should have torn these down and used them as resources. This is unacceptable. Trees can easily be torn down and replanted. This is too large of an area to go unused as resources. This can be blamed on the states politicians.
Wow….. you realize that alot of those trees are literally hundreds of years old? And it takes hundreds of more years for them to grow back like that? You think it’s completely okay to tear down one of the last remaining wilderness our country has? Natural resources are NOT renewable, especially at the rate we are using them. Do something useful and invest in alternative energy sources that won’t degrade and ruin our environment. Global climate change, pollution and other such environmental issues are the direct result of your mentality. You think trees are a waste? Then I guess you don’t like breathing too much. It’s funny, because once all of our natural resources are gone, people like you are going to be the first ones pissing and moaning about the astronomical costs of food, shelter, electricity, gas and other things you consider to be a waste to protect and limit. Please take a few basic biology and environmental science courses to better educate yourself.
^thank you.
he was obviously being sarcastic lol.
Yep those were great pics, that area goes onto the bucket list.
Yep the USA may well have been the first place to set aside large areas. But they also were the first nation to find previously unknown fish species only after they had finished the poisoning of two river systems. The sad stories don’t end there and are almost always connected to the making of a dollar. If the last fish was swimming in a bay and some person could make a dollar by killing that fish, there will always be a someone that will do just that. But the USA is not alone, so called clean green New Zealand is anything but clean and green. Almost all our lakes are full of nitrates from farm run off that is killing the fish. But lets get out there and get growth and make money and stuff the impact on anyone else.
Super clean pictures. Wish I had a high quality camera.
Hi there,
Seriously amazing photos. You don’t see those large trees on the developed East Coast. Wicked jealous. Please make sure to preserve those natural resources for future generations like me. As far as knocking them down, I think that would be an atrocious investment. Let’s take ourselves for a minute out of the wild beauty we see here with the subconscious associations of freedom, purity, etc and look at these trees as a stock investment if we must. The longer the stocks are in there (5 yrs plus is supposedly most advantageous) the greater amount of profit you stand to make as you wait out the natural ups and downs of the economy. I think, as the scarcity of these wild places increase because of the sky rocketing human population and the landscape alters to climate change as we are already seeing in the severe drought in East Africa or the floods in Bangladesh that the value of these forests will only increase. So, yes, these trees are a resource…to be preserved for now with perhaps some selective farming to generate employment. I’d say put your investment toward ecotourism for now. And as far as poverty…I can confidently say that is my expertise and the current welfare system does not promote debauchery or drug use as the above man so primitively stated. Please become educated before you spout opinions. The younger generations, like myself, have to learn from you and it’s always nice to learn from someone who actually knows what they are talking about. Yes, the poor do have an increase in drug use but that’s due to a variety of social/economic factors and cognitive developments fostered from a restricted environment/limited opportunities. Feel free to comment.
Thank you Hanna. Your comment is well taken. I am sorry for my generation, my apologies.
Really I got mind freshness !!!
Absolutely Beautiful
Wonderful. Now go and pollute this too.. <- Ironic (for the very dump)
Sad to see this country was taken away and reigned by morons or descendants of mass murderers calling themselves 'Americans' today. History never forgets your deeds and gods even less!
woo proud to live in Washington. Such a beautiful state.
Hey there great ONP photos! I live in Seattle and have been to the park twice, and it was incredible both times! I love the mossy greenness to everything! Anyway thank you for sharing. Take a look at some of my photos if you have a moment.
Great pics, beautiful park. I am from Florida and have seen lots of natural resources destroyed and neglected because of Republican policies. I have also observed that the democratic party when elected to power tends to create vast bureaucracies that allow preserved properties to be taken over by environmental freaks who gradually deny all public access. They forget that in denying public access they eliminate any reason for the public to support preservation. Democrats have been engaged in banning boating in large areas to protect manatees. They deny or sharply curtail access to our many springs to protect vegetation and have denied and sharply limited beach access in order to protect baby sea turtles that rarely appear in those locations, if ever. Democrats need to understand that if the public cannot see and share in the beauty of these places they will not pay to protect them. So both parties are getting their way. Democrats deny public access which makes it easier for republicans to move in, rape and pillage. Thanks again for the pics
Environmental freaks who gradually deny all public access? Sir please explain what you are referring to as i too have lived inn Florida and I have not a clue what that means. As for preventing access to large boating areas to save manatees- well that’s just plain selfishness on your part sir. Those gentle giants were here for perhaps millions of year’s b4 we were. They are on the endangered species list sir. They die every year because some yahoo in a rent a boat out enjoying the “real” Forida for the day does not understand the signs clearly reading pass through with great caution MANATEES present! So there are SOME protected waterways. There are some other areas in parks that are off limit to a certain size motor, these seem perhaps mildly irritating at best to save such a sweet loving creature who wouldn’t harm a hair on our heads intentionally or recklessly.Then there is the bit about democrats denying or severely limiting access to our springs, etc…well some of the Eco systems at some of those springs has been badly damaged due strictly due to over usage by the public. On the other hand I lied in central Florida an there were springs all over the place that the public has full access to…Plenty of them in fact. So I am confused by this accusation against democrats. I met a lot of Floridians while i lived there, most of whom were Republicans for the simple reason that their parents were Republicans, and their parents before them. As if a political affiliation were in the genes. I found it odd to be told by so many people that hey were Republicans because (insert family name ) have always been republicans. Until I lived in Florida I was unaware that political thoughts and choices were actually inherited from one or both parents. Very interesting.
Bob Carr national reserve, Calispell, Montanna. I volunteered there, we weren’t allowed to bring in any tools that were meade after C.E.
You couldn’t even make a bridge over glacial runoff rapids with fallen trees. Just had to Wade thru them.
Leave me here for a month…..
Thanks for sharing such really wonderful pictures. Such beautiful places are necessary for us to enjoy by visiting them or if not a real visit then this picture visit is next best.
BEEN THERE,,, DONE THAT, REMEMBER BUDDY?
These photos are a wonderful thing;I should spend the holidays in those places.:-)
Greetings
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Very good photography, BUT, Canada’s rain forest is a hundreds times bigger and has much better photo ops.
Am I the only person to notice half of these are used in the movies for the Twilight Movies?
Goonies?
@Jackmearound…..don’t be a dick.
one word —————– BEAUTIFUL
I was lucky enough to go and visit the Elwha river this summer, before they will take down the dams. I am very excited and hope to be able to visit again with my children after the native salmon return:)
I live here. I am so fortunate.
I so want to live at Lake Crescent. It’s so beautiful, crystal clear water. I’ve also taken some pretty awesome pictures while traveling around the Olympic Peninsula. It is filled with so much beauty.
Stunning Photo’s – I was expecting bigfoot to appear in one of them
I bushwhacked here. The place is rugged and full of wonders. Take your Walking Sticks.
Amazing photos, now I want to go there and spend a few months exploring. Need to upgrade my camera first though so I can try and do the place justice. You captured a little piece of heaven.
I’ve been there, seen a lot of those places. Loved seeing the pics of them & reminding me that I want (need ) to go back…….Felt very close to God in the forest
I know there are a lot of great places to visit in our country, but the Northwest should be at the top of everybody’s list!
every think is so beautiful i am lost for what to say love it all GOD BLESS john n
I stood way deep out in the country, and looked up. The milky way was so bright ,and close,and full of stars. It was like I was in it. I could not likely describe it. Suffice it to say- You must experience this yourself. I hope we win some day, and take back our country.
Some of these pictures would make a nice wallpaper background.
Absolutely stunning place, and terrific photographs.
Makes you realise what a mess we have made of nature, doesn’t it?
To see such beauty and deny God’s existence is folly.
Nature’s* existence, not God’s
Thank you for sharing your pictures. I had never been west before my wife and i visited the pacific nw. We spent 3 nights on the trio of treasures aramark special on the peninsula and we loved it. I wished we would have spent the whole week there instead of splitting time with Seattle. I try explaining it to friends here at home and they just nod. That place stole my soul and I am anxious to return but have so many other “must see”s to attend to……
Your pictures captured the persona of the diverse natural beauty.
Thanks!
Now I know exactly what they mean when they wrote God Bless America, for he surely has done just that.
A moment I would love to live.
What a beautiful and peaceful place! Definitely in my “TO GO” list!
Thank you for these beautiful and wonderful pictures of the park. I really enjoyed browsing them. These pictures reminds me of my travels to the USA West Coast many years back. I have visited Yosemite, Death Valley, Crater Lake, Grand Canyon, a few others but can’t recall their name. We even went as far north as Montana once for a ski trip. Those were wondrous times. I am somehow drawn to the West Coast of North America. I long to go back there and Olympic National Park will surely be one of my destinations.
This is a national park on the top of my list to go to! Amazing pictures!
Thank you for sharing…I some of the pictures are so breathtaking I would go to great lengths just to see it in person but I am in New York…I hope that is preserved always.
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I used to spend every weekend riding my horses through these beautiful forests and taking them swimming in the clear waters. I sure miss my family and life there… I can’t wait to find another job and move home!
que lindos paisages,muchas gracias por la atencion y el tiempo para mandarmelos.Se los agradesco de todo corazon.Atte.
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Wow! My dream has always been going to the Amazon rain forest and swimming with pink dolphins, but these pic’s may have changed my mind.
It seems as though this beautiful place does indeed offer it all! Thank-You for letting us in on such beauty. Your pictures were a wonderful treat, Please keep taking them as you are a talented photographer with an eye for the right time and place. Thank-You once again, definitely on our list of places to see. Just moved to the west coast so this is an actual possibility! TY.
Beautiful! I wish more of the country looked like this.
Just simply superb and I felt like i have visited this place.
Absolutely amazing! Would love to visit there some day!
wow nice photos…mother nature is so beautiful with hills and mountains and valleys and look at the human nature and greed of those WS hunkers…its better to investing quality time in nature and photography rather than devising crooked theories of bogus investment bankings of how to let peoples loose all their savings money….
These photos are amazing!!
We visited there in 2006. Beautiful state! I used to think CO was the most beautiful state, but there is a lot of beauty in our country. In reference to the comments about the food stamp program, I don’t know anything about hookers and drugs, but I do know some people receive far more aid than is really necessary. Example: A mother of five, going to college, working part time as a server at Red Lobster, gets $575/mo. That is more than she needs, so she gives $100/mo to her landlord, and still has enough with coupon clipping and price matching for groceries at Wal-Mart to buy the $30 bakery cakes to send to school for the children’s birthdays, flowers in the produce department, and food that most hard-working average people cannot afford to purchase. I’m not saying that I want to punish those who struggle financially, but I do believe some of them would make wiser choices with the money they do have if the gov’t. didn’t just hand them so much cash. Perhaps the drug issue could be addressed by having the participant submit to drug testing at the time of approval? Whatever safety measure that will be put in force, some will find a way around it.
We got lost on our way from vancover. And found this park. ~ BEAUTIFUL in the wintertime its even prettier 🙂
Wow. Great pics. I lived 4 years in Washington and visited the Olympic National Park as often as i could. These pics remind of the beauty the hold and make me miss them oh so much more.
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Maybe there IS life after humans after all 🙂
Amazing all place,,,, I love one of with my family in next holiday. Great post.
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Thank you for including my photo. I am humbled. 🙂
[…] The Kalaloch Cedar in the Olympic National Park, with a dbh of 599 (19,6 ft) cm and wood volume of 350 cubic meters (12,270 cu ft). Photo #22 by rachel_thecat Olympic National Park: One of the wildest places left in the USA [36 PICS] – StumbleUpon […]
[…] I think my top three places to see right now are the Badlands, the California Redwood Forest, and Olympic National Park or Olympic Peninsula Waterfall Trail. I can't believe how relatively few people know about the […]
Trees are so beautiful.
This. Has to be the most beautiful photographs I’ve come across in some time. I just “oh-my-god” fainted through it all 😛 Imagine I landed here trying to figure out what bark clothing looked like, and one of your pics popped up.
Now, I am a painter, and I was wondering if I might use some of your photographs as inspiration. I’ll most like not be painting directly as it is, rather add some things and people/scenes and maybe take a tree or so. Amazing trees though. Makes you feel quite petite.
If I do anything based on your pics, you will have credit and I will link to you, of course.
Let me know, and: keep up the good work mate!
I really love these pics, my favorite theme is nature and wilderness.
Such awesome pictures! Another new place I have to go visit… Thanks for sharing!
Reading these comments is a real education in human nature. Yes, it’s a beautiful world as your pictures remind us. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It seems that if someone disagrees with us, they are labeled “stupid”, “uneducated”, “selfish”, “greedy “‘ just plain wrong or they belong to the incorrect political party, or religion. Some blame those that lived many generations before us for all their problems, and are still seeking revenge.
If only human nature could be as beautiful as mother nature……….
I love taking pic’s like those and the Olympics are a great place for them. Nice Pic’s!
Beautiful pictures…especially without the politics!
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Hi. These photos bring back great memories. Spent 2 weeks here in 1971. Was on a photo education program. Went up the Hoh valley and made our way all the way up to the glacier. Camped on the glacier for 6 days before our assent on mt Olympus. So many cool memories. The photos are very accurate. Coolest thing in whole world was waking up on the glacier early one morning, hiking down thru valley to the start of the Hoh river, then following the river all the way to the ocean and camping on the beach where the river entered the ocean. How many people have seen both ends of a river in the same day?
Thanks for memories
[…] Lake at Olympic National Park in Washington, one of the wildest places left in the USA. Photo #12 by Davis […]
Must have drove like crazy, to get that many good pics, on the one day/yr it wasn’t raining.
smoke another joint, Jim
[…] Quinault Rain Forest. Olympic National Forest is on the south side of the lake, and to the north is Olympic National Park, which we likened as one of the wildest places left in the USA. Photo #3 by USFS / […]
wow amazing!
I’ve spent many years hiking the trails of Olympic National Park. There is awe inspiring beauty at every turn of the trail. It is my heaven on earth. Unfortunately, I can see from the comments section, that so many people just do not get it. You lost yourself for just a few moments in these photos, and, then you went right back to your bitching and whining. It is one of the biggest reason I escape to the wilderness…….. To get away from you all. 😉