Dear Geocachers,
This is to inform you that the Olympic Peninsula GeoTour is coming to an end.
The last day the caches will be available is January 1, 2022. As of 1/2/22 our GeoTour will be a thing of the past. Thank you to everyone who has made this so much fun over the years.
If you have started a Passport, but have not completed it, please send it to us by January 20, 2022 in its current state to:
OPVB PO Box 670 Port Angeles, WA 98362
As long as we have coins, we will honor incomplete passports. Again, thank you. Olympic Peninsula Tourism Commission
Watch for the giant Ice Cream Cone - one mile west from Olympic National Park's Lake Crescent or by the side of Hwy 101 near Lake Sutherland. Shadow Mountain is a full of Sasquatch sightings.
History of the two lakes: Approximately 8,000 years ago, a great landslide from one of the Olympic Mountains dammed Indian Creek and the deep valley filled with water. Many geologists believe that Lake Crescent and nearby Lake Sutherland formed at the same time with the receding glaciers, but became separated by the landslide. The results of the landslide are easily visible from the summit of Pyramid Mountain. Eventually, the water found an alternative route out of the valley, spilling into the Lyre River, over the Lyre River Falls, and out to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Ancient resident oral stories of the Klallam tribe back up the original theory of the lakes being one. The division occurred, according to legend, when Mount Storm King to the south of Lake Crescent got angry by the fighting between the Klallam and Quileute peoples. Mount Storm King tossed a gigantic boulder down between them to stop the fighting, thereby creating the land between the lakes and creating the smaller Lake Sutherland.
