After shelling out
$10.00 to enter the park, and another $8.00 for a backcountry permit at the
ranger station, learning about how to protect ourselves from bears, and where to
urinate, we set off down the trail. The first thing we noticed was the
size of the trees. The old growth trees were all ten feet across or more!
In fact, Olympic National Park is home to nine
record trees,
the largest of their species!