The Hoh Rainforest
While our friends Jason and Daisy were here we took a trip to the southwest side of Olympic NP to the Hoh rain forest. It is a temperate rain forest that gets about 240 inches or 20 feet of rain per year! It really is an amazing place. Even in the middle of winter everything is green and covered with mosses and lichens! The green stuff has green stuff growing on more green stuff!
The first few pictures are at lake Crescent on the way to the rain forest.
Needless to say, it was raining.
Somewhere in the Hall of Mosses.
The next two are of the results of a ‘nurse log’. When a tree dies and falls over the trunk that lays behind is used for nutrients by seedlings. These seedlings eventually grow into big trees and use up the nurse log underneath and so they are left standing in a row with their root systems partially exposed. Some of the roots are so ‘open’ you can crawl under them.
This was a very cool trip and I’d love to go back in the summer when it’s warmer and even greener!
-Chris
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