Monthly Archives: January 2015
Olympic National Park, NW USA
lympic National Park is mainly the inner of the , a far northwest promontory of , at the far northwest corner of the United States. The old-fashioned enters the Peninsula at its base, and circumnavigates the Park, mostly staying outside it. ‘The Loop’ is a big part of the popularity of Olympic, and a …
Olympic Mountains, NW USA an outlying buckle in the subduction zone
lympic Mountains is a small (50-75 mi), cleanly-defined, roughly circular and radial, even slightly spiraled local range (barely) on the far northwest coast of the USA. It dominates the interior of . The Olympics are noted for their high degree of ruggedness, and for their high visibility from nearby urban and conurbated populations. Many Seattlites …
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Cat Creek, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park Elwha river tributary, Olympic Park
at Creek is a left-bank, western tributary of the middle , a drainage of the of the in the . There are no trails (or roads) into this watershed. Partial views into Cat-terrain can be had from the subalpine . Good glimpses of the lower & middle reaches of its cleft into the …
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