This was the planned route to our 2 day Olympic national park trip, in summer 2008
Packed a bunch of food, strategically located right under Pratap's seat...
Ate biriyani at Hurrican Ridge visitors center... our first stop, it tastes different at heights... Pratap didn't realize there was curd in it...
And then we all went throwing snow at Pratap:
Next on the trip was a small hike to reach up to the Sol-duc falls:
After the falls we went to cresent lake, skipped stones... chetan taught us how.
And then again... a lunch break
Took the Moments in time trail, that's right next to Cresent lake... it is hard to describe in words, will let the picture do the talking...
A passing thought when I was there... its definitely a place one could camp with their parents and take some easy trails around.
At night before heading back to the hotel we covered Port Angeles, that had ocean on 3 sides... was a nice experience trying to walk over big boulders that stopped the current...
My memory is going hazy... so the timeline may not be very correct, so guys on the trip... feel free to correct it...
On day 2, I think we covered Hall of Mosses, another easy trail. For some reason I remember eating a lot of chocolate... anyways we were wonder stuck by the multi layered life in Hoh forests. It was so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful.... It was around this trail I guess when senior told me, she thanks all the Gods for the moment she decided she wants to come to US for studying and so grateful for being able to see all this beauty... or something on that lines...
This has been one of our first trip into the thick green of NW national forests... The camera went all crazy with only green in the entire frame...
[cg] This poem by Millay might describe how it felt being there ..
- AH, could I lay me down in this long grass
- And close my eyes, and let the quite wind
- Blow over me--I am so tired, so tired
- Of passing pleasant places! All my life,
- Following Care along the dusty road,
- Have I looked back at loveliness and sighed;
- Yet at my hand an unrelenting hand
- Tugged ever, as I passed. All my life long
- Over my shoulder have I looked at peace;
- And now I would fain lie in this long grass
- And close my eyes.
There are all kinds of landscapes one can see in ONP... from rain forests to water falls, hot springs to oceans and snow capped peaks. Below is the beach trail that is filled with tiny black pebbles... it was really hard to walk. On the way one could see so many dead trees pushed on to the shores and many adventurous campers. Hoping to beach camp like that some day, under the stars, listening to the ocean, with warm camp fire and long conversations that last nigh long.
This one was taken at the end of our trail at Rialto Beach... after which we drove back home, all six of us...
FINE...
3 comments:
Bindu said...
Somehow I missed this last foto :)
It is very good :D
ChetanG said...
I clicked it ;)
Pallavi Damera said...
i think senior clicked it...