The 2007 - 2008 winter brought a severe windstorm to the west side of the Olympic Peninsula. When we ventured out in March to help service a weather station near the Quinault river, this is what we found.

The Quinault River had flooded, dropping logs and debris all along its channel.
Here is Ruth, retrieving data from another weather station, this one near Ozette Lake. The trusty hand-held HP200 is nearly weatherproof and otherwise industructible under our harsh conditions and treatment.
And Ruth and John trekking out to service the Wolf Creek weather station above Hurricane Ridge in the Park.
For razor clam sampling at Kalaloch, John mans the cart-mounted pump while the rest of the crew uses modified hydraulic mining techniques to flush clams to the surface for collection.
Here's what backpacking in the rain looks like. With the summer crew, we are travelling to a sampling site on the remote west coast. That's Ruth, climbing a rope ladder from a beach to the trail above. Once on site, the crew collects intertidal critters living on the sandy beaches for population surveys.
The crew in the midst of a sampling. That's Ruth doing the data recording.
The field crew at the end of the sampling. Happy to be headed home.