Hiking In The Fog

Hiking in the Fog – 1

Going through my hiking photos from years past. I didn’t take nearly as many photos when it was foggy or misty or raining. Since I primarily hiked in the Olympic National Park, that meant that I had my camera in the pack a lot of days. After a while I got a couple of different waterproof (or resistant) cameras … first a Minolta and then a Nikonos. But the Minolta didn’t have a real good lens on it and the Nikonos was a brick. Like real heavy. I was delighted when I found the digital cameras became available in a waterproof, rugged vesion (my favorite was the Nikon AW series). These were all taken the same day, but I’m not sure what camera. It was film, though.

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Old Windows

Old Church Window

Driving around on backcountry roads you can find a lot abandoned churches and schools. Before transportation was motorized, schools and churches were local even in rural areas so that folks could access their services. The image above was taken somewhere out in the backcountry in north central Oregon, somewhere near Wasco … where the image of the storefront window below was shot. The church window gave me fits trying to get an image that didn’t look crooked. Oh well. I think it’s past it’s time of being worried about squared up.

Storefront Window
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Yellow Jacket Gold Mine

Yellow Jacket Gold Mine

A while back I visited the Yellow Jacket Gold Mine, which was part of the Comstock Lode gold rush in the 1860’s and -70’s. I found it a little interesting and a whole lot sad. There was a large underground fire that spread through the mining district in April 1869, that started in the Yellow Jacket and killed 37 miners. Mining has always been a very dangerous occupation. All in the search for riches.

Wagonwheel, not going anywhere soon.
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Favorite Campsite

Favorite Campsite: Camp Pleasant

I have been writing up my hiking memiors. Hours and hours and hours of working at the computer. Haven’t had much time for working on (new) photography or blogging. Lots of going through old photos that I took while out hiking.

This was one of my favorite destinations for a backpack (or just a dayhike, back when I could do a long hike in a day). Camp Pleasant probably burnt up in the North Fork Skokomish fire (AKA Bear Gulch). I will be interested to see, when they finally let folks into the area (probably a year or two). This is in the southeast corner of the Olympic National Park. Just over 6 miles in from the trailhead at Staircase Ranger Station.

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