Cape Alava Loop (Ozette Triangle) — Monday, May. 6, 2013

Olympic Peninsula > Pacific Coast

I wanted to take advantage of this incredible weather and do this loop. Got to the Ozette Ranger station around 10ish and after chatting with the Ranger set out for Cape Alava. Some of the boardwalk has been replaced with a gravel path, which is better. Weather on the beach was foggy and cool, about 52 degrees with a steady southery breeze about 10 knots. This persisted until I returned to the parking lot 4 hours later. The tide was out so I got past all the headlands with no problems and got the shot of the petroglifs that I had com for. I met and chatted with maybe seven other hikers doing the loop. Lots of fishing net, rope, and plastic flotsom on the beach along with the rotting carcase of a dead whale.