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Much of the trail looked like this. Under the skunk cabbage leaves would be old hand split cedar boards. Nice and slippery. I probably fell about 10 times.
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Here's my destination. In 1903 the Norwegian ship Prince Arthur (formerly the British 240' steel clipper Hoghton Tower, built 1869, and sailed around Cape Horn 5 times with officer Earnest Shackleton) was wrecked here with the loss of 18 sailors. The two who survived got to walk aimlessly through the same woods I did. Spotting smoke from a cabin, they found homesteaders Iver, Ole, and Tron Birkestol, all from Norway, so there was no language barrier. The local Makah took the survivors by ocean canoe to Clallum Bay.
Finally the "trail" drops down into a small beach. I had lost the trail so I just stumble-rolled straight down the hill.
More of the trail looked like this. It's straight ahead. By getting down on my hands and knees I could see the old trail and climb under the brush. There were huge patches of windfall that I didn't stop to photo. I didn't want to get distracted and lose the trail. Someone else had the same idea and put a piece of pink survey tape here.
Much of the trail looked like this. Under the skunk cabbage leaves would be old hand split cedar boards. Nice and slippery. I probably fell about 10 times.
One of the highlights was stopping and looking up. Huge twisted spruce and cedars, probably still there because the ocean winds had reduced their value as lumber.
Here is one of the bridges across a rivulet. This is probably the best one. Others were a single log or completely broken down. Some of the drops were 10-12 feet, but you couldn't see that because of the brush. The Ranger that I spoke with said the last time she was on this trail was to medevac a hiker with a broken leg resulting from a bridge collapsing. Fun.
I searched around and found this camping area. The abandoned trail head is between the two trees to the left of the fire ring. Little did I know that this was as obvious as the trail got.
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Much of the trail looked like this. Under the skunk cabbage leaves would be old hand split cedar boards. Nice and slippery. I probably fell about 10 times.

Much of the trail looked like this. Under the skunk cabbage leaves would be old hand split cedar boards. Nice and slippery. I probably fell about 10 times.
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This is the launch by the Ozette Ranger Station. I had heard that it was shallow and didn't have a dock, but that has changed.
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