Exploring the Olympic Peninsula | Cape Flattery, Hurricane Ridge, Mount Ellinor, & Murhut Falls

[Music] happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday little kona happy birthday to you love you it's CONUS fifth birthday and Adam turned 31 this week yeah excited for her birthday so we're on a little weekend adventure to celebrate both of them [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're an Olympic National Park this weekend which is one of Washington's three national parks and it's most visited it gets 3.4 million visitors a year and it's the eighth most visited national park in the u.s. yeah we're gonna be camping and hiking we're excited because it's one of the 21 of the 23 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United States and it's also been declared the quietest place in the lower 48 one other reason why we love coming here is it has so many different ecosystems there's lakes waterfalls mountains with tons of snow 60 named glaciers tons of coastline and also multiple rain forests so it's very diverse to come here you could be at the beach one second and then the mountains not another second maybe a few hours later but close enough and last and maybe least I don't know it kinda depends on where you stand on this it's where the movie Twilight was filmed slash set in so if you're a Twilight fan more reason to come here we have a feeling that brought a lot more people here in the past few years we personally haven't seen the movies but we drive through Forks and we see a little like welcome to Twilight and so we're super excited set up our tent and we're about to get going on our first little adventure got the goods we're good to go we're headed to Cape Flattery and to go there you have to get this special permit because it's on the Makah I think this may be how you say it tribal reservation so you have to get this $10 permit to be able to go there I'm super easy a few places in town right before sell it now I'm ready to roll we just got to keep flattery which was about a two-hour drive from our campground there's really great views along the way of the water so it wasn't a bad Drive at all we have not eaten though in like six or seven hours so we're starting to get a little bit hangry so we're making a quick lunch before we get going on the trail right welcome cooking with Adam we got a bunch of cut-up red green orange bell pepper and some chicken sausage going and two cans on the camper so here's kinda good gonna be delicious coming right along much better we've eaten we're all in good moods now we're ready to go on the Cape Flattery trail so this hike is more like a walk than a hike it's 1.5 miles roundtrip and from what we remember because we've done it once before it's not very steep so I'm not totally sure if our memory is correct or not but the super awesome thing about this hike is it takes you to the north western most point of the continental US so besides Alaska obviously this is the most Northwest you can go on the lower 48 so that's really exciting and then the views were amazing last time and it's super sunny out today so we're hoping for some good views of the water and all these really cool rock structures that will show you guys [Music] [Music] so we just left Cape Flattery and now we're heading to hurricane ridge there's a national park visitor center there it's an overlook that overlooks the Olympic Mountains the ranger this morning told us that there was a report so around one inch of snow so we're hoping to see some snow but we're hoping to be able to get there also because we sometimes with the snow they have to close the road but the Ranger didn't know so we're gonna go check it out for ourselves please have snow that'd be so fun we're also feeling a little bit rushed because of daylight savings so the Sun sets it for something up there and it's to something right now we have a two hour drive so we're kind of scared that we're gonna be cutting it a little bit close and we like to really just enjoy sunset so we'll see hopefully everything goes smoothly getting there [Music] this does not look promising might be a view of clouds instead of mountains because that continued look at this two years to layer it up until they said we watching back in the office almost they quite an evening on here we rarely get lucky when it comes to weather like this but it looks like we're getting lucky today hopefully we don't want to speak too soon we're not there yet and it's getting a little foggy but we can kind of see the Sun so this looks promising [Music] this is awesome [Music] it's so beautiful like an awesome sunset turned out we were a little nervous on the way up but it turned out awesome yeah if you see all those clouds behind us we were underneath that and I had some faith that we'd pop out and we did so over there [Music] I almost fell and embarrass myself in front of that room my hands hurt I'm almost crying oh I'm such a wimp it's worth it that super worth it those seat warmers I got me clothes a car steaming out cuz we put so much oh my goodness still haven't recover the feeling in my fingers yet [Music] we're making coffee on this very chilly morning campground not all heroes wear capes y'all we have our coffee we're now ready to go we can't last night at heart of the hills parked on the huge that's how we normally say it it's a campground that's about 15 20 minutes from Hurricane Ridge so it's a great spot if you want to go check out that area it's a first-come first-served campground which we normally don't do because we like to know we have somewhere to sleep but we got here yesterday at like 8:00 a.m. and there are a few spots available it's the low season so not many people are trying to camp in this cold weather so it worked out great for us we had a secluded spot they have a bathroom they allow dogs which dogs aren't allowed at national parks but they are at some of the campgrounds so it gets an a-plus in my book [Music] we're at Merhi it falls in the Olympic National Forest so 1.6 I think mile hike to some beautiful waterfalls so we're gonna go check it out [Music] life saver on the chilly morning early morning my early morning hike gots to have these little hotties at Costco Hulk that may be one of our favorite waterfalls in Washington we love Falls Creek Falls which is kind of near the Columbia River Gorge and the Gifford Pinchot I think national or something like that but this is probably in our top three as well yeah yeah it might be the the time of year it's really cold and we're here early this morning so there was only one other group of three here so I mean that yeah we love going to places where there's less people and that's kind of rare in Washington so we highly recommend this one and try to come in the offseason because like we said only one other group and you can't really beat that [Music] we are at Mount Eleanor at the Olympic National Forest we are doing the upper trail head instead of the lower trail head which cuts off about two miles however it's way more steep yeah yeah so it's about 3.2 miles roundtrip and two thousand four hundred and forty four feet of elevation so it goes up quick and should be a toughy character-building grade they say someone yeah someone actually said it's character-building so should be pretty hard but it'll tire Kona out which is good because she's been very anxious to speak in a little whiny um hates being in the car this much so we're hoping she gets tired and then sleeps the whole way home and we get a good workout leave we're going up there [Music] oh this is no doubt err like buying that home burner it's tough but look at that view signe is for sure worth it I feel like singing my Miley Cyrus's the climb being running out at the top we're super close so we're headed back down it was definitely a tough hike but oh my gosh the weather today is crazy you can see all the mountains Mount Rainier Mount st. Helens not Adams Mount Baker absolutely gorgeous um it's really rare that we get so many sunny days in the fall we're gonna cross our fingers that continues because we've had the best time adventuring this note October November with tons of sunshine [Music] all right you can check Mount Eleanor off the list there it was a Tuffy but we have a tradition we always do when we head to the Olympic Peninsula so we're making one more stop on the way home hop on our Olympic Peninsula weekend is Olympia Coffee Roasting which we always stop at whenever work near Olympia on our way to the peninsula just really good coffee a really cool space they have a roastery inside just an awesome stop before going to the peninsula on the way back to get that caffeine boost I got their spiced latte and it's basically the holidays in a cos it's so good Adam wants to steal it yeah I want it straight I just got it pour over but I got a delicious El Salvadoran it said like I want to see it was like brown sugar and like lime and like something else but I'm bad at tasting what they say but it's really good all right now we're headed back to Seattle we got caffeine in hand and we're ready to go we're almost home fueled up ready to go [Music] we had an incredible weekend on the Olympic Peninsula your home you're gonna relax and then conquer the week and then we'll have another fun adventure next weekend stay tuned a same testing one two three Mic Check 1 2 miles round trip me like the Titanic in here don't go chasing waterfalls just kidding we are [Music] you