9/2/21 - Hurricane Ridge deep into Olympic NP was on the agenda today.This section of the park was closed until yesterday when the police finally captured and man on the loose with a gun. The naming of the ridge is based on hurricane strength winds upwards of a 75+ miles per hour off of the Pacific, thus the name. The 17 mile road cut into the mountain was quite the engineering feet traversing cliffs and 3 tunnels to get to the Hurricane Visitor Center at 5,200 feet. 

The beauty of this area is just amazing.Our hike today was about 6 miles, 500 ft elevation gain over 3 miles to 6,000 feet. The mountain ridges, glaciers hundreds of feet deep and a mile or better across the Mt Olympus 7,500 summit was the highlight of the day.

Views from the Visitor center

 Lunch spot was awesome!

54 degrees up the mountain. Great hiking weather

Lunch deer

 The hike up

Just about to the top of the hike

Made it!!

Eight point buck at 6,000 feet

View of Port Angeles harbor from our high vista

Back at the Visitor Center

We broke out Mark's spotting scope for some amazing pics of the glaciers roughly 16 miles away.

Here is the picture without the spotting scope

Here is the same pic using the scope