{"id":7146,"date":"2018-12-17T19:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2023-10-24T08:44:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:44:37","slug":"ozette-loop-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/ozette-loop-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozette Loop Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ozette Loop Trail, a boardwalk journey into the green tunnel. Yes, I paint private commissions that interest me – and this one did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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This is a recent commission that traveled across the country. The lovely question: “My daughter and I came to the Northwest to visit family and we hiked the Ozette Loop. Could you paint something to help us remember our fantastic trip?” – or something like that. Anyway, I wanted to share the painting here because, while it certainly IS the Ozette Loop, as anyone who has hiked that world-class trail will agree, it’s actually what I THOUGHT that 6 MILES of boardwalk feels like. It just goes on and on through the green wall of ancient old-growth, cedar, spruce and alder. Sometimes it’s a hand-split cedar boardwalk, sometimes it’s new stuff, sometimes you think you’ll fall through and sometimes even plastic Trex appears momentarily (how COULD they have done that?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nancy Cherry Eifert paying attention. One wrong step and a busted knee at least.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are places where this path is really old, like the section in the photo. You need to watch it carefully, not gaze around at the canopy overhead. It’s a leg-breaker awaiting. Sometimes it’s gravel, but not so much considering it’s 3 miles on each of two sides of the triangle. The middle side, of course, is 3 miles of wilderness beach, boulder and gravel walking down the coast – and the real reason most of us go there. That part feels amazingly remote but it’s really too good to share. It’s a place stories come from. It’s a place to camp, sit beside a beach fire and watch the sea otters play in the shallows. Maybe another hike’s in order next summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks go to Jennifer and her family in Connecticut. I got to make a painting for you – and me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All images enlarge with  a click. Yes, I paint commissions.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week – and the entire year for that matter.
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s my Facebook fan page<\/a>. I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click <\/a>here to go to our main website \u2013 with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy\u2019s web portfolio of stunning photography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here to go to Virginia Eifert\u2019s website.<\/a> Her books are now becoming available as Amazon Kindle books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a recent commission that traveled across the country. The lovely question: “My daughter and I came to the Northwest to visit family and we hiked the Ozette Loop. Could you paint something to help us remember our fantastic trip?” – or something like that. Anyway, I wanted to share the painting here because, … Continue reading Ozette Loop Trail<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180,3],"tags":[181,72,162,186,185,182,92,184,123,183,125],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commissioned-paintings","category-new-painting-post","tag-commissioned-paintings","tag-nancy-and-larry-eifert","tag-olympic-national-park","tag-original-painting","tag-ozette-boardwalk","tag-ozette-loop-trail","tag-port-townsend","tag-sea-otter","tag-wilderness","tag-wilderness-hiking","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2018-11-25-Ozette-Loop-commission-10x14-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12368,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/12368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}