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thatbaldwinlife
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 Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:45 am Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| Abscate wrote: |
Great trip report and pix.
Just follow the phone line .....
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Thanks!
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flomulgator
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| goldtooth wrote: |
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| Next time, if you have more time, detour around part of that less than scenic section of 101 by heading west then north on 109 past Ocean Shores and up to Moclips, then back on a paved but disused road to Quinalt. Very scenic and you can even drive on the beach for part of it if you want. |
Is this the route you are referring to?
I have been down part of it but not on the old paved road up to Quinault.
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Yep that's the one.
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campism
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 4:20 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| goldtooth wrote: |
| Man too bad we didn't see the phone. After it got busy when we got back from the hike, we just kinda got out of there. |
We had the place to ourselves the morning we were there. The phone booth proved redundant as my bride got a business call on her cell phone while we were strolling around. Guess the out-of-office message on our land line wasn't good enough for 'em. Did not ruin the day but it was a surprise to discover we had a signal.
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thatbaldwinlife
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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Man too bad we didn't see the phone. After it got busy when we got back from the hike, we just kinda got out of there.
| joetiger wrote: |
| Great report as always and beautiful photos. Thank you! |
Always appreciate your feedback on these threads!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:41 am Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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Great report as always and beautiful photos. Thank you!
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Abscate
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 4:24 am Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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Great trip report and pix.
Just follow the phone line .....
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campism
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 4:16 am Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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Phone booth is actually at the parking lot in the rain forest once you have come in on Hoh Valley Road. Visitor center in the town of Forks is much less shaggy.
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dkoesyncro
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| I'd assume the booth is at the hall of mosses? The roads end from pavement to gravel headed east from Quinalt is a nice little spot to camp. Imvsure it's private property but it's so inviting. |
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thatbaldwinlife
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| Let's kind of keep this info on the downlow. We don't want 'you know who' to find out about this living treasure. Thankfully, most of the folks here are illiterate, but we need to be cautious nonetheless. |
Haha! It is a treasure in the area.
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Did you get to see the scenic mossy phone booth? From our trip in 2010*.
*Required Vanagon content: Our Westy was at home in the driveway 'cause this was a fly-'n'-rental-car trip |
We didn't see the phone booth! Where is that at?
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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Thanks for another great trip report. There are so many wonderful hikes in the area, one is 13 miles in from Lake Quinault along the Quinault River to the Enchanted Valley with walls about 1,000 ft high and countless waterfalls coming down. You can make it a through hike to Dosewallips on the east side of the Peninsula.
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jlrftype7
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:00 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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Seeing your pictures takes me back to the '70s with semi-frequent family trips to my Mom's relatives in Washington State. She kept trying to tell us that there were Rain Forests around ,but as kids, we could only imagine the Amazon Rain Forest....  
Once we finally got into them, we understood what she was talking about and had grown up with as a child herself in the '30s and 40's.
Very nice trip.
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thatbaldwinlife
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:27 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| Next time, if you have more time, detour around part of that less than scenic section of 101 by heading west then north on 109 past Ocean Shores and up to Moclips, then back on a paved but disused road to Quinalt. Very scenic and you can even drive on the beach for part of it if you want. |
Is this the route you are referring to?
I have been down part of it but not on the old paved road up to Quinault.
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alaskadan
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 7:46 am Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| Loved steel head fishing around there. |
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Steve M.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:33 am Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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Dam dam dam...another location to visit added to the list!
Thanks for the great report and video.
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campism
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Did you get to see the scenic mossy phone booth? From our trip in 2010*.
*Required Vanagon content: Our Westy was at home in the driveway 'cause this was a fly-'n'-rental-car trip.
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Zeitgeist 13
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| Let's kind of keep this info on the downlow. We don't want 'you know who' to find out about this living treasure. Thankfully, most of the folks here are illiterate, but we need to be cautious nonetheless. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:50 pm Post subject: Re: Hoh Rainforest Camping trip report! |
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| The Hoh Rainforest is indeed a magical place. We got up there for some hiking last September. |
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