Valley of the Giants - Lake Quinault
Evie and Marit holding hands on the rainforest walk The Olympic National Park is home to the only temperate rainforest in the United States. We were fortunate to have Grandma and Grandpa Pastorius and Auntie Annie and cousin Evie come visit us over Labor Day. The kids left early on Friday with Grandma and Auntie to beat the traffic. Grandpa was bumped off his flight but he eventually arrived; however, his baggage somehow ended up in Texas. We made a quick trip to the nearby Target before headed to the very rural and very remote Olympic National Park for the weekend. We arrived at the "Valley of the Rain Forest Giants" and the historic Lake Quinault Lodge late on Friday night. Lake Quinault Lodge, built in 1926 Lake Quinault is on the western side of the Olympic peninsula and the surrounding valley gets its name because of the record number and size of tree species located there, including the largest Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Western Hemlock, Alaskan Cede...