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Now that what's-her-name is gone .... which means no Thanksgiving and
no Christmas anymore.... unless I happen to find some new skirt that I
feel like wasting another 14 years of my life on before she, too, dumps
me for "someone better".... I think I'd prefer to just spend my remaining
holidays with Eloise. Plus Christmas in Seattle no longer being a
realistic annual adventure, I may make a few days up in the Olympic
peninsula a regular thing around Thanksgiving moving forward. I guess
we shall see. It's been a way long time since I've been up here so if
the weather is half way decent I should be able to get some good pictures
in a location that I haven't shot lately. The park is certainly big
enough!
So this trip turned out to be a scouting mission. The road to Hurricane
Ridge was closed due to snow but the Ranger said they do start plowing
and open the road up after Thanksgiving. And the road to Altair was
washed out so no going out there. The Indian tribes have had the roads
to their reservations closed since March "due to covid" which means no
access to a lot of the coastal locations. Didn't get any good pictures
today.... the conditions for photography were horrid. In a few locations
it was clear and I did have interesting subjects to shoot but in every
case the bright sun, low in the sky, was straight ahead!
The roads to the various rain forests all seemed to be open but I didn't
think I'd get any good pictures in them considering the conditions. The
only pics I took were at the surprisingly uber-crowded Rialto Beach....
and those pics came out lousy due to harsh lighting conditions.
The commie tyrants struck again! Nine months after the two week lockdown
(that never ended) to "flatten the curve", both the Oregon and Washington
Governors (both freedom hating power hungry autocrats) locked down both
states AGAIN! Sorry folks, No Thanksgiving and probably no Christmas.
OBEY!
These images were made with my Nikon D810 camera and my
Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F/1.4 ZF.2 manual focus Lens.
Mount Olympus could be an interesting climb. According to the Park
service it's a difficult, hazardous technical climb. I do have the gear
(except for detailed maps), the skills and training for something like
that although I am pretty rusty and not in as good condition as I was a
few years ago. We shall see. The biggest issue is that it's a 17+ mile (x2)
hike just to start the climb to the summit so this is definitely a
multi-day, backpacking endeavor.
There are a couple of other "hills" in the park that are less technical
so maybe one or more of them to start off with. This trip will mostly be
a scouting mission to find out where everything is, how to navigate the
park and maybe get a few good landscape images.
Of course I no longer have a hiking partner and this park's wilderness
may not be the place to stroll off solo. On the other hand, being alone
is preferrable to being with someone who wishes they were with someone
else so I guess it all works out in the end.
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