Thursday - Day Six - Washington Trip

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I woke up early Thursday morning to go on a hike up to Lake Angeles while Stacey and the kids slept in. It was pretty dark hiking in the early AM with the overcast and then the darkness of the forest with all the trees. But there is chaotic beauty to the dead fall and moss everywhere.

In many of the creek crossings where things would have been quite wet they had constructed nice log bridge/walkways. Moving further up the ridge the fog and light made the terrain appear and disappear in revelatory fashion. It was like walking through a dark forest described by Tolkein.

I unexpectedly hit the snow line and was soon the trail was covered in a light dusting of snow. The light combined with the darkness and the white snow made for some surreal scenery.

The trail quickly became less obvious as the depth of the snow increased to several feet. The pines were covered in snow and when I arrived at the Lake it was covered in ice and shrouded in fog. I was completely alone, there was no one else on the trail or at the Lake, it was strikingly quiet and serenely beautiful. I walked around the lake for a bit and then ran back down the trail to meet my family for breakfast.

We left Port Angeles and drove across the Hood Canal to Bainbridge Island where we caught the ferry to Seattle. We went over to our good friends Johnny and Shannon Zollinger's house, where Rod Zollinger met us and we went out to dinner at a very famous Mexican restaurant, whose name I can't recall and I wasn't that enthusiastic about.

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