Cape Alava, Sand Point & Cape Alava Loop (Ozette Triangle) — Friday, Aug. 8, 2025

Beautiful and rugged.

It is crucial that you time the tides to get around a few points, however there are "alternative routes" (with ropes) up and over the headwalls that could prove difficult with packs. We barely made it around the second head with about a minute to spare....we had become distracted and mesmerized watching a bear feast on the "salad bar" of kelp on the beach!

No water sources that I could see on this trip; everything is pretty dried up.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Many large, recently-downed, trees completely cross the small beach just south of Cape Alava and they jut all the way out to the kelp-covered rocks, so choose your path carefully. Some have paths in the sand near the roots, but others don't...forcing you to either wind your way through the limbs or go all the way around them on the rocks. Even the jagged rocks can be extremely slippery with seaweed on them. Sharp and slippery makes for a nasty combination. And during this week's high tides, the seaweed can be over a foot thick on the shoreline. I'm guessing these trees could be an issue at high tides, too, but I was there at low tide, so no problems.

Fortunately, the downed trees only last for less than 1/2 mile.

Does anyone know what kind of snake this is (last picture)? We found a brood of about 5 of them (all over a foot long), but they don't look like garder snakes. These guys were entirely brown with minimal stripes.

Yes, there are mosquitoes and swarms of kelp flies...fortunately, they don't bite.