Klahhane Ridge is located just to the south of Port Angeles, Washington, USA near

Hurricane Ridge Hurricane Ridge is a mountainous area in Washington's Olympic National Park. Approximately by road from Port Angeles, the ridge is open to hiking, skiing, and snowboarding and is one of the two most visited sites in the national park (along with ...

in the Olympic National Park. The ridge is accessible by a variety of hiking trails and offers views of the

Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest at ; however, the easter ...

and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. On October 17, 2010, a mountain goat attacked and killed Robert H. Boardman at Klahhane Ridge. Boardman had been hiking with his wife and friends, when an aggressive mountain goat approached. Boardman told the rest of his party to move down the trail while he tried to scare the goat away. His companions heard a loud yell and when they investigated the found Boardman on the ground with the aggressive goat nearby. Boardman had been gored in the thigh. A coast guard helicopter transported Boardman to Olympic Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased. The goat in question had been reported as being aggressive and the

National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...

had been keeping tabs on it. The goat was later shot by park employees and submitted for necropsy. Mountain goats are a non-native species that were introduced to the

in the 1920s.

References

Landforms of Clallam County, Washington Hiking trails in Washington (state) Olympic Mountains Landforms of Olympic National Park Ridges of Washington (state) {{ClallamCountyWA-geo-stub