Day Hike Washington: Olympic Peninsula, 5th Edition - More than 70 Trails You Can Hike in a Day

Informationen zum Autor SEABURY BLAIR JR. spent many years as the outdoor columnist for The Bremerton Sun , where one of his most popular features was the “Hike o’ the Month.” He is an avid backcountry skier and hiker, and lives in Spokane, WA. He is also the author of Wild Roads Washington; the Creaky Knees Guide series of easy hiking books (titles cover Washington, Oregon, and Pacific Northwest National Parks and Monuments); the Day Hike! series of easy hikes that you can do in a day (titles cover the Central Cascades, the North Cascades, Mount Rainier, the Olympic Peninsula, the Columbia Gorge, and Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) .     Klappentext "More than 70 trails you can hike in a day"-- Cover page 1. Leseprobe Introduction Herb Crisler. Chris Morgenroth. Minnie Peterson. They were the lucky ones, the ones who pioneered on the land that is now Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest. There were earlier explorers: James Christie and Charles Barnes. They were among the first to see the blue ice of Olympic glaciers; the massive cedar, fir, and spruce cloaking the valleys; the roiling rivers filled with fish. Their tracks were made a scant eighty-five to one-hundred-fifty years ago, and as far as anyone knows, they were the first human tracks in the interior of the Olympic Mountains. You may have heard of some of them. Herb Crisler filmed the 1952 The Olympic Elk for Walt Disney and in 1930—eight years before Congress created Olympic National Park—won a $500 bet he could spend 30 days in the Olympics carrying only a pocketknife, 75 pounds of camera gear and three carrier pigeons for what we might today call "real time" reports. When he returned from that adventure, Crisler told a reporter in 1977, "I fell in love with the animals, and I vowed that if I ever got out alive, I wasn't going to hunt anymore, only photograph them. The more I photographed, the more I fell in love." Crisler's name and tireless work to establish a national park on the Olympic Peninsula is largely absent from park history. Chris Morgenroth—some spelled his name "Morganroth"—was a pioneering forest ranger who homesteaded on the Bogachiel River in 1890. Minnie Peterson was a guide and packer in the Olympics for five decades whose family settled on the Hoh River in 1888. James Christie was the leader of the 1889-1890 Seattle Press Expedition of the Olympic Mountains and Charles Barnes was one of those first explorers who braved one of the worst winters in Olympic history to forge a trail up the Elwha River and out the North Fork of the Quinault, mapping such places as the Bailey Range, which still has no developed trails. In recounting the adventure in the July 16, 1890 edition of the Press, entitled "Found in the Olympics: A Resume of the Natural Resources of the Explored Region," he recorded wildlife the expedition members had seen. There were elk, deer, and bear, he said, and concluded his report by writing: "One goat was seen by the party." That was about a quarter-century before Port Angeles hunters imported a dozen mountain goats to the Olympic Mountains, and a half-century before Congress created the national park. Barnes' journal entry and the Press article is largely discounted by Olympic National Park officials, who maintain mountain goats are not native to the Olympic Mountains. Imagine what it must have been like to be the first person to walk beside the Elwha River, or clamber across the Catwalk between Cat Peak and Mount Carrie. You'll find trails, both developed and boot-stomped at those spots today. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a single square inch of Olympic National Forest or Olympic National Park that hasn't been stepped upon by a human being. Still, the park and wilderness areas of the forest are as wild as any place you can find in the Lower 48.<...

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• Authors: Seabury Blair
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2023
• EAN: 9781632174659
• ISBN: 978-1-63217-465-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 178 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Day Hike!
• Subject: Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines