We drove up to the Little Quilcene Trail to hike up to Mount Townsend, about 7 miles and 2,200 ft of gain. The rhododendrons are in bloom along with many other wildflowers. Beautiful hike even on a cloudy day.
The majority of this trail is in the forest, it was pretty with the flowers, lichen and
lots of moss.
After the trail joins the Mount Townsend Trail and climbs up along the west side, we began to get views looking into the northern Olympic peaks.
There were plenty of wildflowers growing along the open slopes.
We took the steep boot track up to the North Peak first.
And were happy to get a view of Mt Baker, Mt Shuksan and
Glacier Peak before they were hidden behind the rising clouds.
zoom of the tops of Mt Baker and Mt Shuksanzoom of Glacier Peak
View towards the south Peak of Mount Townsend
Views to the west as we walked over to the top of Mount Townsend (the south peak)
zoom of Mt Constance to the southwest
The views to the east were hidden by the clouds.
There was lots of phlox in bloom.some of the wildflowers and fungi we saw along the trail today:
