While we haven't received the snow I'm still hoping for, the Elwha has definitely been busy, as it has had the highest flow over the past two weeks since ~1949ish, and it was an impressive show. A few visiting friends and I trekked through parts of the Whiskey Bend trail yesterday and saw this giant tree with a gnarly rootwad hinged on Goblin's Gate atleast 15 feet in the air (lower picture). A little further upriver, the trial was completely gone, atleast 10 feet of bank had been eaten up during the storm - which meant we had a little off-trail adventure up to the historical "Michael's Cabin" site. Needless to say, the storms were hugely influential as the Elwha illustrates and the whole scene is very humbling to observe, powerful dynamics at work...next time I hope to have a front row seat!
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