We drove up to the end of Obstruction Point Road in Olympic National Park to hike to Gladys Basin via Lillian Ridge and Grand Valley. Overall our trip was 10.5 miles with 2,600 ft of gain. We saw a nice variety of wildlife along with wildflowers still in bloom.zoom of Mount Olympus from the parking area.
It was 37F when we started our hike at 8:45am, there was frost on some of the plants and grass.
Chimpunk along the trail.
Deer walking by us up on Lillian Ridge.
Another view from Lillian Ridge, and
looking down on some tarns on Lillian Ridge.
View to the southeast, just before the trail starts to descend into Grand Valley.
zoom of distant peaks across Grand Valley
up from a small stream crossing
View of Grand Lake
Views along Moose Lake, as we headed up the trail towards Gladys Basin
We saw several deer near the camping area at Moose Lake.
Looking back down at Moose Lake as we continue up the trail.
Another small stream
We found lots of ripe huckleberries along the trail.
View looking back towards Gladys Lake, as we hiked past it and
a view up towards Grand Pass and Grand Peak.
A tarn near the trail.
The tarns in Gladys Basin, we were careful to step on rocks and avoided stepping on heather and other wildflowers.
some of the frogs in the larger tarn
Another tarn
Small stream with Grand Peak above
Lots of yellow monkeyflowrs by this stream
As we were hiking back down to Gladys Lake, we saw several grouse and
several marmots.
We took the short side trail to Gladys Lake.
Another view of Moose Lake
We saw another 8 or 10 deer back by Moose Lake.
Back up on Lillian Ridge, we had distant hazy views of Mt Baker and Glacier Peak.
More tarns up on Lillian Ridge
As we were driving along Obstuction Point Road on our way our, we saw a couple of young bucks above us.some of the wildflowers and berries seen along the trail today:
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