Hiking Trip

Bear with me while I catch up on the last couple weeks of activity out here, but I have to tell you about the hiking/camping/sailing trip we went on about 2 weeks ago now. I went straight from work that Friday and met up with Anna, Emerson, and Ryan (who works with Anna) over at Ryan's place in Seattle. From there we drove to a point on the sound where we could take a ferry across the water to the Olympic peninsula.

On the other side, we drove to a cheap car-camping site where we got a spot roughly 10 feet from the fairly major road that got us there. We were also in plain view of about 8 other campsites from our site. Ah the great outdoors. While we were camping, Emerson cooked some SPAM from the Spam Museum that Anna visited on her way to Washington. I tried some of it. That was enough for me.

On Saturday we went hiking in the Olympic National Park. The actual hike we did took us up to a nice little lake area with a view of all the peaks around us. It was a pretty steep incline the whole way and Anna got some pretty nasty blisters from her new hiking boots. There was a chipmunk-like animal there who seemed really tame and playful. He was running around near us as we sat there. Later (after I saw him eating some peanuts) we discovered that while we weren't looking he had chewed through a plastic bag and helped himself to Emerson's trail snack. We ate lunch there and then hiked back down to the car so we could drive up to the visitor's center at Hurricane Ridge where there is quite a view of the Olympics. More pics of the hiking trip can be seen here.
We drove back to our campsite and stayed there for the night, and then got up the next day and drove to Port Townsend where Adventuress, the ship that Anna worked on last summer, was docked. We went out for a day sail that they were doing and cruised around the sound for a few hours. It got a little chilly out there, but it was a really cool experience. After we got back in to land, we all loaded back in to the car and drove back to the ferry that took us back over to the Seattle side of the water and headed home.

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