After about four weeks of mostly fog, the weather has finally broken for a few clear Seattle days. I always look forward to seeing the Olympic Mountains covered with snow, about 80 miles west, across Puget Sound, and a few peninsulas. Here's the view yesterday morning in West Seattle, from Lowman Beach Park.
On a nice day, you can walk northwest from here, on Beach Drive S.W., past a lot of really fancy waterfront homes, and the house where Elvis slept, to Alki Beach - where stretch Hummer sightings are still thankfully rare.
TECHNORATI TAGS: SEATTLE, WEST SEATTLE, OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS, LOWMAN BEACH PARK, BEACH DRIVE, ALKI, ELVIS, STRETCH HUMMER
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at December 9, 2005 12:29 PM
Matt,
Great Photo but let's not encourage too many new migrants.
Though my view is about 90 degres clockwise from this, it looks like the snowy peaks on the left are Mt.'s Washington and Ellinor (both about 6k elevation). That's Mt. Jupiter on the right. It is about 5,700 ft and in the 'lea' of the rest of the mts. on the penninsula, so has less snow. Matt has only shown the southern third/half of the eastern side of the range.
These frontside mts. on the view from Seattle are about 40 miles distant. The range is another 40 miles deep behind these. The Olympic National Park, which does not include some of the prominent peaks in this photo covers about 1,400 sq. miles.
Posted by: Gary at December 10, 2005 07:36 AMGary, thanks for the excellent additional information. It IS a BIG national park, and the mountains look very different from Sequim or Port Angeles out on the Olympic Pensinsula. Boy, I'm getting Dungeness Spit withdrawal pangs just thinking about it.
Posted by: Matt R. at December 10, 2005 10:33 AMMatt,
Hold your pangs off until January. The crabing season will be open then based on the latest reports.
Like Blue crab? No, "Dungeness is better compared to Maine lobster than to the Blue Crab; it's that good and that meaty." Mark Bittman, NY Times, "The Minimalist" columnist.
Now I am recruiting new residents.
Posted by: Gary at December 11, 2005 08:35 AM