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Olympic National Park visitation rises in 2011 over previous year

Peninsula Daily - Jan 24, 2012
Visitation at Kalaloch was up 396 percent from December 2010 and is attributed to boosting the park's overall recreation visits for the month by 22 percent. Total visits in December were 78846. In December 2010, visits totaled 65092.

Bremerton mountain rescue group help in two recent rescues

Kitsap Sun - Jan 25, 2012
Although OMR members primarily cover the Olympic National Park because it's "practically in our backyard," members help out with rescue missions anywhere in the state, he said. Sometimes, they even get called out on missions to Oregon.

Olympic National Park rangers help with Mount Rainier manhunt, honor guard

Peninsula Daily - Jan 5, 2012
By Arwyn Rice OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Four Olympic National Park rangers assigned to help in the effort to track down a killer at Mount Rainier National Park have returned to their posts, while others are standing guard over a fellow ranger's body.

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Olympic National Park books

The Lady of the Lake

by: Mavis Amundson
The true story of a brutal murder and a killer who tried to conceal his crime in Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. The Lady of the Lake is a best selling book on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.

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Day Hiking Olympic Peninsula: National Park/Coastal Beaches/Southwest Washington

by: Craig Romano
Introducing next-generation trail guides for the Northwest. We asked hikers what they want in a trail guide today and this is what they said: more day hikes, with options for extending the trip; hike selection conveniently arranged by highway and travel corridors; more hikes close to urban centers; more year-round hikes at low elevation; clear driving directions; a portable size; and more use of color.

To meet the needs of the modern hiker, The Mountaineers Books introduces its new Day Hiking guidebook series, written by Northwest residents with impressive hiking resumes.
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Hiking Olympic National Park, 2nd: A Guide to the Park's Greatest Hiking Adventures

by: Erik Molvar
This book describes a 585 mile network of maintained trails in a wilderness ecosystem that stretches from the beaches of the Pacific to the heart of the Olympic Mountains.

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Olympic National Park, WA - Trails Illustrated Map # 216

by: National Geographic Maps
Within the park, there is detailed coverage of Mount Olympus, Tshletshy Ridge, Hurrican Ridge, Huelsdonk Ridge, Bailey Range, camping areas, facilities, ranger stations, nature trails, waterfalls, boat launches, and much more. Also included are the Mount Skokomish Wilderness, Ozette Lake, Lake Pleasant, Lake Crescent, Lake Mills, and Olympic National Forest.

The map is full of detailed trail information, points of interest, trailheads, picnic areas, facitlities, and more. Includes UTM grids for use with your GPS unit.
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Olympic National Park - Washington State

A few pics and vids from a weekend spent in the great outdoors in Washington.

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Olympic National Park Hike

Olympic National Park Hike

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NWA EP#5 Olympic National Park Pt.1

The Natural Wonders Of America Episode #5 The United States, a vast land of natural contrasts - arid deserts to frozen glaciers, steep canyons to soaring mountain ranges and lush waterfalls to endless coastlines - is the focus of this travel series celebrating nature's beauty across America. Traveling to the most unique national parks and remarkable destinations the United States has to offer, THE NATURAL WONDERS OF AMERICA is a wonderful travel companion, source of reference and a timeless gift of the enduring grace of the natural world.

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Olympic National Park Washington Beach Hike Day Four

Olympic National Park Washington Coastal strip No fewer than 150 ships have met an untimely fate along the Washington coast, a big chunk of which is taken up by Olympic National Park. The 62-mile shoreline is renowned for its storm-tossed ocean, and to walk it is to feel the sobering power of surf, fog, and waves. Your daily companions might be gray whales, bald eagles, sea otters, and sea lions, but at night, huddled around a driftwood campfire, you'll likely feel the presence of something else: ghosts. GAME PLAN: Among the beach-hiking cognoscenti, the 23 wild miles between Cape Alava and Rialto Beach hold a certain attraction: sea stacks, tide pools, lazing seals, and none of the elevation change you'll find up in the mountains. But that hardly means the trek is, ahem, a walk in the park. Scrambling over headlands is hard, slippery work, while walking around them might mean waiting on a tide change. You'll need three full days at least. From the Ozette Ranger Station, start for the coast on a three-mile boardwalk that cuts through a boggy forest of western hemlock and western red cedars. At Cape Alava, scope for migrating gray whales (in the spring and fall), then turn south. The going is easy at first—about a mile in, keep an eye out for Wedding Rocks, which are covered in petroglyphs—but gets trickier after Yellow Banks, with a four-mile run of slick boulders and ankle-deep gravel. Hiking poles are a big help here. The route is dotted with eight designated camping ...

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