Hurricane Hill

We drove up to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park this morning to beautiful views and many deer grazing in the meadow below the parking lot. The Hurricane Hill Road is still closed due to one large snow mound across the road, so we hiked along the road (adding 1+ mile each way) to the Hurricane Hill trailhead and up to Hurricane Hill. Our route was 6.3 miles round trip with 920 ft of overall gain. We saw early wiildflowers, many deer, marmots and chipmunks, plus outstanding views, an awesome day of hiking!

views from the Hurricane Ridge parking area

zoom of Mount Olympus Views along the way to Hurricane Hill, we were happy to find wildflowers blooming.

view of Hurricane Hill

view of Mt Angeles, we saw lots of avalanche and glacier lilies (here were many glacier lilies and spring beauty)

a young buck in front of Mt Angeles on Hurricane Hill, views near and on the top of Hurricane Hill

Two of the many marmots up in the meadow on Hurricane Hill, a chipmunk and a butterfly

We found a bench on the way down Hurricane Hill to take a lunch break with this lovely view

some of the wildflowers seen along the trail today:

Iron Bear

We drove to the Iron Creek Trailhead off of FSR 120 in the eastern Teanaways to hike up to Iron Bear via the Iron Bear and Teanaway Ridge Trails, 6.3 miles round trip with 1,500 ft of gain. It was a beautiful day with lots of wildflowers in bloom!

About 2 miles up the trail, we turned to the right and continued up the Teanaway Ridge Trail, as we crossed the ridge, we had a nice view of Mt Rainier and saw many bitterroot flowers in bloom.

Up on Iron Bear we had great views and found some steerhead flowers in bloom

zoom of Mt Adams

zoom of the Goat Rocks

zoom of Mt Rainier

zoom of Mount Stuart

a squirrel greated us on our hike back down the trail some of the other wildflowers we saw today: