Washington Trip (Oct 2024)
Day1: Mountain top sunrise to Beach sunset After we landed in Seattle around mid-day, we drove to Port Angeles. It is a bigger city with many amenities and had a small park along the beachside. Our arrival was in time to see the Sunset in Port Angeles beach. So, we loitered around to relax from the long drive, sat down a bit to enjoy the Sunset and checked in to hotel for the night. Next day morning, left the hotel at 6 to get to the top of Olympic Mountain by 6:45 AM. During the drive up there in the dark, we hardly saw any vehicles in that windy road uphill. When we reached the top where the visitor center was supposed to be, we saw an almost empty parking lot with vehicles slowly trickling in. Apparently, the visitor center was damaged in the wildfire earlier and they had made a makeshift center and bathroom in trailers. We roamed around a bit to see where would be get a good view of the sunrise and decided to take Sunrise point trail . The way up was pretty well paved until we a