Our Drive to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park

The tech comes out to the motorhome at 8:15 am to start work on our refrigerator
cooling unit replacement. We'll start our day with a drive to Hurricane Ridge in
Olympia National Park.

Our friends, Dave and Kathy, drove to Hurricane Ridge on April 8, 2014.  Check out how much snow was on the ground just three weeks ago.

Olympic National Park

  

The Entry Point

The vending machine where
we pay the entry fee.

We head up the mountain.

A look back at where
we've come from.

Sequim (pronounced Skwim)

is located below, at the middle

of the picture.

We drive...

through... 

... three tunnels

Snow creeps down to

the roadside.

The view from a pull off 

Snow poles line the parking

lot at Hurricane Ridge.





There's a lot of snow here....  The Peninsula Daily News reported 8.2 feet of snow here in February 2014.

The Ski & Snowboard

Trailer at Hurricane Ridge.

A snow grooming machine

for the slopes 

The Gift Shop at the Hurricane

Ridge Visitor Center is closed.

There will be no souvenir

 shopping today.

This "snow plow" looks

like a giant snow blower.

I wonder how long it will
 take for the snow to melt at
the highest elevations.

We had perfect weather for our drive to Hurricane Ridge.  The day was sunny and warm, in the 60s at the Visitor Center at the ridge. There was no fog to obscure the view of this beautiful, mountainous section of Olympic National Park.