I’m finally returning to Olympic National Park during our upcoming road trip. My only visit was back in 2003 and I absolutely loved it. So much so that I hand-coded a dedicated html website to show off our trip photos to friends (the partial site renderings are courtesy of wayback machine, which only sorta archived it). That site would eventually expand to a few national park trips before I eventually moved it all over to scottspics.com, which ran on a php photo gallery.

By 2005, I was primarily posting to Flickr first—which featured a great community of fellow roadtrippers—and uploads to my own sites started to taper down a bit. Eventually, I was nearly exclusively sharing to facebook and twitter. That’s too bad, as the fragmentation meant that I’ve never had a single library of all my trips. I’d eventually like to change that.

A deer is grazing on a grassy field with snow-capped mountains and a cloudy sky in the background.A rocky coastal scene with driftwood scattered along the shore, surrounded by dense green trees and forested cliffs.The webpage contains a detailed travelogue and practical tips about a visit to Olympic National Park in June 2003, including descriptions of the weather, routes, campsite choices, and notable locations within the park.A webpage layout featuring sections for thumbnails, a main image caption area with descriptive text about mountain views, and a sidebar organizing various photographic categories related to the Olympic Mountains.A webpage displays a gallery of thumbnail photos featuring various hiking and nature locations, each labeled with the name of the site such as Anza-Borrego SP, Arches NP, and Black Mesa Loop.