After Olympic, we headed up to North Cascades National Park on the Canadian border. The most striking part about this park is the colorful Diablo Lake. An explanation of this surprising color is in one of the photos. Sadie and I took a hike that also overlooked Diablo Lake. I happened on what I thought was a particularly beautiful roadside cascade one day, too. The usual PNW moss, ferns, and wet was everywhere. Beautiful area.
After a “false start”, I made my way to Silver Falls State Park where I had been planning to go for a long time. It has a seven-mile trail on which you can see ten waterfalls! (Waterfalls have always been one of my favorite photographic subjects.) Since I had to leave Sadie in my vehicle (with the A/C on), I wasn’t able to see all of the falls but really enjoyed this hike. Water, water everywhere–and ferns, moss, and lots of green. My kind of place.
As usual, more info in the photo captions.
Certainly, the Redwoods state and national parks and coastal areas are beautiful but unfortunately, my bad California luck continued in a big way here. The memories are still fresh several months later, so I will not choose to record those unfortunate events here since the goal is to ultimately forget what happened. Instead, I’ll only mention the good–and usual beautiful–parts and then we’ll move on. (More info in the photo captions.)
My Side of the Adventure 