Travel plans/May 2015

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***May 9-10***

We will camp somewhere in the Hoh rainforest on Saturday night. Some of us will be at CDSW beforehand, so these people will drive to the rainforest after 4PM.

Basic information

Location: The Hoh Rainforest

Plans: Spend the night at the rainforest and hike during the day on Sunday.

Weather: likely wetter and colder than Seattle. NOAA forecast is here.

Transportation

It will take about 4.5 hours to drive there.

• Whiskey Bend Road is closed indefinitely above Canyon Overlook due to slide damage.

• Who's driving?
  • Sage and kids will leave around midday to stake out a campsite. (We have room for one more in the car.)
  • lucy will pick up bryan at the airport around 1-2pm and head out to the campsite (we'll have room for two others)
  • Liz and Tommy will leave following CDSW workshop. We have room for two more (dog will be in tow)

Campground

• There are many campgrounds. Should we pick a site with water/toilet?

• I think that's a good idea, although sometimes it's more pleasant to go in the woods than the compost toilets.

Things to bring

• any pass for park use? (lucy: we have one nat'l park pass)
• tarp (if it's wet, we may want these for under the tent)
• tent
• sleeping bags
• warm clothes
• rain jacket
• towels
• toilet paper (Mika)
• garbage bags (Mika)
• food
• water (if not available at the campground)
• small camping stove (lucy + bryan)

• trekking poles (optional)

Attendees

• Mako
• Mika
• Liz
• Tommy
• Sage
• Brighton
• Evie
• Bryan
• Lucy
• Special guests?

Fauna

We may or may not want to find:

• Olympic elk: the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk in North America
• Pacific tree frog
• Banana slug
• Bobcat
• Cougar
• Olympic Black Bear

They are definitely around.

• Morels