Hurricane Ridge
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- Henry David Thoreau.
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One of the main reasons why we included the Olympic Peninsula into this road trip was the beautiful location of Hurricane Ridge. There is quite an unparalleled view of the stunning Olympic mountains from the visitor center itself. Another added attraction is that the meadows which make the ridge famous are usually carpeted with wildflowers in summer. From my past experiences I have learned that sunrise and early morning is usually the best time if stillness is an important factor in your photos.
So after visiting the Hoh rainforest and abandoning a sunset venture at Ruby beach, we headed back to Port Angeles to get a little shut-eye before waking at 4 am for the 30 min drive to Hurricane Ridge. We were the only people there and I was truly excited thinking about finding my prime wildflower shot before anyone else joined us. But unfortunately, I realized soon that the reason why it was not crowded was because the wildflowers have not yet started blooming. So, all I had was a beautiful meadow in the for ground and a part of orange flowers close to the horizon if squint and zoom.
I still came back happy because the light was just gorgeous, and we have quite many elk and deer’s that were grazing by the meadow. Some even come close and checked us out. This is a must-see place if you are in the Olympic Peninsula or the beautiful towns of Port Angeles or Sequim.
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- Lao Tzu.
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Another shot from our recent summer roadtrip through the beautiful state of Washington. This one was taken at Hurrican ridge of Olympic National park. I didn’t take this shot just a bit after we completed the short hike around the ridgeline. We were actually about head back when I noticed that there was still some color in the mountains and the clouds. To add to that we had some deer that were grazing by the horizon, so I quickly set up a panorama shot of the Olympic mountains and the beautiful meadows in the foreground.
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- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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When we were planning our trip to Washington, I knew that I had to keep Olympic peninsula as a must have location. And along with Hoh Rainforest and the Sol Duc falls, sunrise at the wildflower meadows of Hurricane Ridge was going to be the star attraction of the vast peninsula. As we started more realistic planning we knew that we had to drop some spots if we wanted to stick to the one-week plan and decided to drop the north cascades section of Washington and they were mostly snow covered in early June.
So, I was really excited to wake up at 4 am in the morning and drag my very sleepy wife on to a drive to the beautiful wildflower meadows of Hurricane Ridge. Unfortunately, it turned out to be an masterclass in one of the follies of landscape travel photography. We were there on time for sunrise but not the wildflowers. My best guess calculations were off by about a week according to one of the park rangers we met. These were the only patch of wildflowers that we on the entire meadow.