Trip Report Series #12.5 | Toleak Point (Olympic NP South Coast)

The south Olympic National Park coastline is just outside of Forks, WA - a center of outdoor activity on the Olympic Peninsula. No vampires or werewolves to be seen.

A group of KC and PNW-based folks gathered to pack in a variety of Olympic NP and British Columbia adventures, including backpacking: Enchanted Valley, Toleak Point, Hoh River Trail. Also day hiking Cape Flattery and Sol Duc Falls. Then we went into Canada through Vancouver on the way to Squamish and Whistler, for hiking, bungee jumping, and zip lining before returning to Seattle. There is some unfinished business in the Olympics, with a planned future lollipop backpacking trip in the Quinault zone, the full Hoh River Trail onto the Blue Glacier, and a return taking a zip on the High Divide loop and part of the traverse.

I'll provide an overview of the trip there: highs and lows, difficulties, risks, terrain, elevation, permit requirements, maps and guidebooks, information gathering, water strategy, food storage, side hikes, gear, group planning thoughts, logistics, and more.

It will be helpful to you to have reviewed this backpacking trip online and have at least a basic familiarity with it before this talk. The speaker(s) intend to launch into various specifics of the experience and not necessarily provide a start-to-finish walkthrough.

This is not a future trip planning session. This overview does not equip you with all you need to know to be safe and successful should you plan your trip - that will require significant due diligence beginning with official sources, but this can be helpful.

*Also, did you know Sierra Club runs trips to scenic areas like this which takes on the planning for you? Search here for a wide range of those Trips!

Take a look at these unofficial trip guides for additional perspectives:

• WTA
• Taryn (she's a great resource IMHO, for my 2025 Vancouver Island West Coast Trail and North Coast Trail combo. trip)
• Zilcsaks
• There are many, many more.

You'll get some insightful curated experiential information during this talk; see video clips and pictures. Hopefully, I'll also have some of my trip partners' testimonials (live or recorded) for you. And I'll save time at the end for questions.

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