Enjoying family time with the Gazette at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park

Cape Gazette readers Rose Ann and Jim O'Leary visited Washington state's Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park with their grandson, Elliott Dely. Hurricane Ridge is made of a number of snowy peaks, the tallest of which is Mt. Olympus at 7,956 feet above sea level. The ridge is named not for having hurricanes, but for the extremely high winds experienced there that often gust to 80 mph. The area also gets about 30-35 feet of snow annually. They also explored a good portion of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. They traveled out to Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point of the continental United States.