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The Hoh River trail is popular with backpackers heading 18 miles into the interior to climb Mount Olympus. We did not go that far, but it was still an amazing landscape to explore.

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Hoh River

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Lush greenery. Amazingly, it did not rain at all during our trip.

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Hiking through a tree

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Talk about old growth forests...we'd grow old just trying to count those rings!

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An interesting tree growth -- a limb eaten away by some type of bug??

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Quick, take the picture! My feet have gone numb!

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View from Rialto Beach

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The high tide line was covered with thousands of these shimmery blue remnants of sea life.

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The beach was strewn with bleached deadwood and trees

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Clambering over huge dead trees on our way to Hole-in-the-Wall

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Hole-in-the-Wall at high tide. During low tide, you can walk through it and among the tide pools teeming with life. Unfortunately, our timing was a bit off.

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Climbing up the overland trail above Hole-in-the-Wall

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Hole-in-the-Wall from the other side

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We built this cairn out of sea-washed pieces of driftwood that looked like pebbles.

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Hole-in-the-Wall through a hole in the driftwood

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Frolicking in the Pacific surf

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Mount Olympus visible from Rialto Beach