Summer Hike up the Hoh
August is the driest and quietest month of the year at One Square Inch of Silence. The early afternoon nature ambience consisted of the faint whine of winged insects and the murmur of the Hoh River in the distance measured at 32 dBA. The first Sunday hike of the month was enjoyed Cordy & Tom Brady, Steven & Rick Broom and Gordon Hempton, Executive Director of OSI. Many elk prints were on the ground with only a few boot prints at this remote wilderness location. One jet intrusion was observed at 1:15 PM, a private jet cruising at high altitude caused a disturbance measured at 37dBA. This difference of 5 dBA is more than three times the acoustic energy! Donate to One Square Inch and help us have Olympic National Park become our nation’s first no-flight zone for civilian purposes.
We are proud to introduce Steven Broom, Youth Volunteer Coordinator. Steven is a student at Adna Middle/High School in Adna, Washington He has a deep love for the wilderness and is a keen observer of wildlife. You reach Steven at sbroom@onesquareinch.org Welcome aboard Steven!
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2 Responses to “Summer Hike up the Hoh”
Barbara Terao Says:
September 27th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Your book and ideas keep making their way into my posts at Of The Earth blog, at bwterao.wordpress.com. Please read my mini-review of your book and let me know what you think! It is a recent blog post. A couple posts before that is “Turtle Breath” that mentions your book as well.
Hans Gerwitz Says:
September 28th, 2010 at 8:15 am
Visited on Sunday (September 26th) and the Jar was not to be found. Quiet, though, was… only one jet overhead during our hike, otherwise the loudest noises we encountered were the cascades and elk bugling.
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