From Forks to Kingston then onto Tacoma, through Seattle and finally Everett (it is what you gotta do when you miss the last ferry) it is exactly 225 miles.

And to think that was not the worse part of my day...lets just say it involved learning a lesson the scary and the you know who way (well almost, I did not go swimming ) about ALWAYS carrying a spare oar. I will not get into details...

But I will say, it was worth it and I would do it all over again.

Nice picture. That is a good way to take a picture without abusing the fish. Any speeding citation?

Dude that is a long drive.I live here in bremerton and just got back from the west end tuesday night,so I know what you just did! I thought I had it bad leaving in the snow storm tuesday night and loosing a headlight dropping down into Fairholm.....

I can relate Ryan. I've done a number of one day trips from Cedar Mill (west of P-town) all the way up to the Hoh and others on the outer Pen, the previous couple of years. I started at about 2 a.m. in order to meet Oly friends at Monty Square, and on to the outer OP. Then I have to drink several cups of coffee to stay awake driving back home, by about 9 to 10 p.m. LONG days - but like you said, worth it. I haven't been able to do it this year because of the tail injury. But I have a ride up to the Sauk soon. Overnighter for 2 days fishing. I think that's the much better way to do the long trips, to reduce the chances of falling asleep at the wheel, and get in some more fishin!

All you Pugetropolis guys know that its faster to drive thru Aberdeen right? Well, its a lot closer now that the Sequim bypass is in place...

One year I made the pilgrimage to the Hoh 42 out of 52 weekends...I'll bet you can't guess which ten weeks I skipped....

let me guess......
the very best weekends......right??

You guys should try driving from the canadian border.(with a hangover)

I actually did that once too fish(- the hangover)...My buddies got turned back at the border on a trip to Vancouver Island, so we said screw it we were going to drive four seven more hours....

Closed for six weeks and the other four? Son's birthday, Mom's birthday and tired of fishing in zipperlip creek cuz the of the downpours....

Ryan,

How about the oar story? Promise we won't laugh. Were you trying to follow the footstep of the ex girlfriend?

Yeah, ( snicker ) we promise ( giggle ) we won't ( sniggle ) laugh.
Tell us ... maybe we'll all learn something new ( heh heh heh ).
diana

Sparkey
Thought about you last night driving into seattle to go to the paramount!That must be a shock to go from everet trafic to forks trafic and then back again.

very nice pic.......

tight lines......wayne..........

oh ya how would i post a pic......thanks in advance

tight lines....again.....wayne........