Month: November 2010
This September and October have been truly lovely months! We got more than 9 inches of rain the first two weeks in September and then everything turned into my favorite kind of fall weather – cool and crisp in the mornings and sunny and warm in the afternoons. This was the perfect time of year […]
Phew! What a year! Tom’s been finishing up on posts and beams under cabins as well as getting the kitchen porch finished on Cabin Christie. He’s also finished up the porch on Cabin Olympus and redone the kitchen cupboards in Cabin Col. Bob. Besides redoing curtains in some of the cabins, my main job has […]
January 27, 2018 1:30 AM – There are many theories about what happened that night – directed energy force, alien space craft, Sasquatch, but generally it’s believed to have been a straight line micro burst. More than 110 trees were knocked out across the North Shore Road all facing toward the water, many more up […]
This winter we’ve focused on Cabins Ellinor and Olympus for some major structural work and upgrading. Each are getting new posts and beams. In addition, Cabin Ellinor is also getting a new furnace, a new hearth, and additional outlets. As the person that supposedly gets the cabins ready for check ins, I was a bit […]
What a great summer we’ve had this year – but now it feels like fall has arrived! We’ve had 5.22 inches of rain since the beginning of September with most of that falling within the last week and a half. Leaves are starting to color up and fall, the apples are ripe to the delight […]
For generations, folks have been hiking up to see the North Shore Western Red Cedar which has been one of the world record trees (63.5 ft circumference, 19.5ft diameter, 174ft tall) in the Quinault Valley. Well, sadly, a couple of weeks ago during a wind and rain storm, it split and fell. It will be […]
This last weekend was the annual Lake Quinault Cancer Fund Bike Ride around the lake. This is the 27th year that this event has been taking place. Tom and I have been participating in this ride since 2005. This year we had one friend that biked to the first refreshment stand (obviously, the most important […]
Climbing to the top of Col. Bob is a challenging enough hike that you want a day where you can take advantage of the tremendous views once you get there! Last Tuesday was one of those days. We had heard from a couple of our guests that enough of the snow had melted so that […]
There’s been lots of activity here at Lochaerie these last few months. We have a couple of great guys from the Harbor that have been working diligently on jacking up Cabins Angeles and Storm King and re-shaking the exterior waterside walls. All the rain we’ve had in January and February hasn’t made their job easy! […]
We love to read what our guests write in the cabin journals as they share life events and their experiences here at Lochaerie and as they explore the Olympic Peninsula. Here are just a few of the journal entries folks have written this last year. Angeles: July 27 – We came here for our […]
