The Olympic Range Mountains are beautiful. The road to Hurricane ridge was well maintained and had numerous turn outs to allow viewing the spectacular scenes:
There was a wider variety of evergreen trees on the road up to the Visitor Center than we saw in Yellowstone and Hells Canyon. There were also many more large, older pine trees indicating that some of the areas we drove through had not seen forest fires for a long time.
When we reached the Visitor Center, there were wonderful views of the mountain peaks:
From the northern ridge we could see Port Angeles, the Strait of Juan De Fuca, and Vancouver Island (Canada) in the distance:
We came down the mountain and continued west on the PCH. During the day we saw many logging trucks:
As we passed Crescent Lake, we stopped to enjoy the beautiful views:
to be continued.....