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"Ghost Forest," Olympic National Park, WA [OC]
Found this absolutely otherworldly place on a hike yesterday.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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As someone from the E coast, Olympic is like someone took a forest and turned it up to 11. I understand the technical term is temperate rain forest, but nothing prepares you for the shear density of life.
Groups of trees in a line are common, like in the 2nd pic. That's because they grew on a fallen log that has since rotted away. If you leave anything there for a week, shit will be growing out of that too.
That's a good descriptor. We saw some absolutely bonkers growth formations on logs and stumps yesterday and were trying to figure out if they all grew organically or were somehow engineered by patient foresters and mycology nerds.