We drove up to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park to do two short hikes: Hurricane Hill (3+ miles rt with 700' gain) and Sunrise Point and the Meadows at Hurricane Ridge (1.4 mile loop with 200' gain).
Heading up to Hurricane Hill, there were more wildflowers in bloom from one week ago, and all the snow on the trail had melted. Lupine along the trail, with views of the Bailey Range.
View of our first destination: Hurricane Hill, glacier lilies in the foreground.
View to the west of Mount Angeles and Klahhane Ridge
Larkspur and views
onions and viewspano from part way up Hurricane Hill looking southwest
daisies near the top of Hurricane HillPano from the top of Hurricane Hill on the left to Mount Angels on the Right
Pano from the top of Hurricane Hill looking south
Lots of prairie smoke and cinquefoil in the meadow on Hurricane Hillpano looking south from a little more eastward on Hurricane Hill
Deer next to the trail as we start down from Hurricane Hill
We hiked a short ways along the connector trail down to the Elwah Valley and saw this larger buck.
Views as we continued down from Hurricane Hill, we saw a marmot sprawled out on a boulder below us.
zoom of the marmotsome of the wildflowers seen along the Hurricane Hill trail this morning:
We then drove to the Visitor Center at Hurricane Ridge and made a loop hike, by walking along the parking area to Sunrise Point and returning along through the northern meadow trails.
View to the southwest from the parking area at Hurricane Ridge.
Heading up to Sunrise Point, view to the northwest of Hurricane Hillpano to the south: Mount Angeles and many Olympic Peaks
view to the southwest
view of Mount Angels to the east
views to the south
Coming back down from Sunrise PointPano from the meadow looking north from Hurricane Hill to Mt Angeles and Sunrise Point
We saw some deer in the meadow at Hurricane Ridge on our way back to the car
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