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43 lines
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title: "Pacific Northwest"
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date: 2021-10-15T16:39:55-07:00
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draft: true
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tags: ["Travel"]
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## Portland
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Our first weekend, we stayed in Portland, OR. We rented a great three-story
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house on the north side of the city that was great for all 10 of us to hang out.
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On our one full day there, we went to Powell Books and Deschutes Brewery.
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On the way up, we all stopped in Olympia, WA for a break and some lunch. Some of
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us stopped for oysters along the Hood Canal too. Our final destination was a
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house in the woods outside of Port Angeles.
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## Freshwater Bay
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Our first day in Port Angeles we went kayaking on Freshwater Bay. We say river otters, sea
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otters, and a baby sea lion! Our guide shared a bunch of cool stuff about the
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kelp forests along the coast too.
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## Hurricane Ridge
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The second day we drove up to Hurricane Ridge where it was snowing. None of us
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was really expecting such a dramatic change in weather. The snow was beuatiful,
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but we were all a bit unprepared.
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## Hoh Rainforest
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The next day, we took a long drive around the Olympic Peninsula to visit the Hoh
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Rainforest. We hiked through the Hall of Mosses, and along the Hoh River for a
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while. We stopped along the riverbank to skip stones before heading back to our
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cars. On the way back to Port Angeles, we took a short detour to Rialto Beach, a
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rocky windswept beach covered in seafoam and driftwood. It was overcast and a
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little foggy but beautiful.
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## Lake Crescent
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The last full day of our time in Port Angeles, we took a short trip to Lake
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Crescent and nearby Marymere Falls. It was a short hike up to the falls. A
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little rainy but nothing we couldn't handle.
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