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HIGH DIVIDE
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Cat Peak and Mount Carrie [222 Kb]
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High Divide is a 1600 meter high ridge between the Hoh and
Soleduck Valleys in the Olympic Mountains. Three of us visited
the area during the winter reading break in February 1978.
I was on snowshoes and the others were on skis.
The route we chose, following the Soleduck River, was essentially
the same as day 1 of the
Crisler Traverse
that two of us had completed the previous summer.
None of us had a tent large enough to accomodate more than two people,
but a friend offered to loan us a "McKinley" style tent, which was a well
know style of expedition tent from that era, capable of sleeping four.
We set up our camp in Soleduck Park, an open area about 200 meters
below High Divide. After setting up the tent we realized that although
the tent was shaped like a McKinley, the size was definitely not like
a McKinley -- this was only a two person tent. Especially with mid-winter
gear, it was a tight squeeze for all three of us to cram into the tent
for the night.
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Soleduck Park [117 Kb]
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The next day we snowshoed (me) or skied (the others) up to the top
of High Divide, where we sat for a while and enjoyed the views toward
the interior of the Olympics. We could see most of the Bailey Range,
which two of us had traversed seven months earlier.
Below us lay the 1250 meter deep Hoh Valley, with the Mount Olympus
massif rising beyond.
After returning to Soleduck Park, we broke camp and decended back down
the Soleduck Valley to our car. It was too late in the day to catch
the ferry Coho back to Victoria, so we set up a camp and spent the night
in the Heart O' the Hills campground just above Port Angeles. The next
morning we drove up to Hurricane Ridge for some more snowshoeing/skiing
before catching the Coho home.
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