High Divide Trail -- Sol Duc Area, Olympic National Park

We think this is Mount Olympus, the highest peak in the area at nearly 8000 feet.  It's still got its glacier (take that, Al Gore), in fact, it has eight of them.   The mountain and the range were renamed by a Brit on July 4, 1788.  He thought them so beautiful that they must be home to the gods, as was the Greek Mount Olympus.  We were told that to climb Mount Olympus, you must first hike in 26 miles.  No wonder it was not climbed until 1907 -- two years before Teddy Roosevelt named the area a National Monument.  (It became a national park in 1938 thanks to that other Roosevelt). 

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