{"id":6027,"date":"2018-08-12T00:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T08:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2019-04-14T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T18:05:49","slug":"olympic-backpacking-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=6027","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Backpacking Trip, August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

My good friend Jim Darmiento ask me to join him and two other friends on a four day\/three night backpacking trip that actually turned into a three day\/two night backpacking trip.<\/p>\n

We started that the Dosewallips trail-head via the River Road\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6also known as the gateway to the eastern Olympic Mountains.\u00c2\u00a0 The River Road is wide gravel road good for bikes and horses and it was a great way to warm the legs up with 38 lb. pack before picking up elevation gain.\u00c2\u00a0 After walking pass the Elkhorn campground we finally started to ascend upon the river valley.<\/p>\n

After about 9 miles or so the first day we made camp at the Dose Forks camp.\u00c2\u00a0 The camp was pretty full, but a couple who was only having lunch gave up a nice spot so we sit-up our single man tents.\u00c2\u00a0 AJ brought along some whisky, but it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take long for the four of us to finish it off.\u00c2\u00a0 We all slept pretty well the first night.Our before picture at Dosewallips River Road, only 40 miles to go.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Shinners, AJ Soule, Jim Darmiento and Rick Freeman<\/p>\n

We set up our single man tents at the Dose Forks camp.\u00c2\u00a0 When our group first got here, there was no tent spots open.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, an young couple were sitting on the log (in background) having lunch and asked if we were looking for a spot to pitch our tent and it was like “oh hell yes”.<\/p>\n

Jim and I in the hut at Camp Siberia.\u00c2\u00a0 It down poured through-out the night….we stayed dry under the shelter.<\/p>\n

Third day at Anderson Pass.<\/p>\n

We finished our third day and last day with 19 miles with wet backpacks at Graves Creek Campground.\u00c2\u00a0 Total trip was 40 miles!\u00c2\u00a0 I want to thank Paul for carrying my .45 caliber Kimber gun on the last long leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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