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Originally Posted by mark12_30
If it's mountains we want, I must cast my 'vote' for the Olympics, as seen from Hurricane Ridge.
Hurricane Ridge is both bare enough (and hikable enough) to be hobbity, but, the views of the rest of the Olympics are majestic enough. Misty Mountains indeed.
And the lakes are jewels, Durin. |
Oooh, yes. I went out to Olympic National Park when visiting my aunt in summer 2006. It really was amazing. The landscape out there that the pictures capture is so very different and beautiful; untamed and so much wilder and fresher than the eastern part of the States, where I'm from.
Along the same thought, on the same trip, we encountered the Hoh rainforest, which I must say reminds me a bit of Fangorn, perhaps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ho...Rainforest.jpg
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/olympic/images/oly494.jpg
It really does look like that. Fantastic. I kept expecting to find an Ent around the next turn in the trail. I want to go back there someday.