The story
Hurricane Ridge's open subalpine meadows offer good wildlife viewing in summer, including grazing black-tailed deer and raptors such as hawks and golden eagles that soar on the updrafts along the steep slopes. The exposed alpine terrain makes animals easier to observe here than in the dense lowland forest.
Starting down now, leave the high meadows still busy with life behind you, deer cropping the slopes, a hawk or an eagle leaning on the updraft overhead. The open country up here lets you see wildlife the way the deep forest never does, out in the daylight, against the sky. You had a front-row seat for an afternoon. Now the trees close back in below.
Photo: Olympic National Park (NPS) · Public Domain
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