The mountain across the valley (which is the Duckabush) is Mt Steel. The small stream runs down into LaCrosse Basin … this is all in Olympic National Park. It’s a very remote area … 20 miles or so away from any trailhead … which helps cut down on the number of boots smashing the flowers down. We were very careful to step on rocky areas as we made our way across the meadow.
Any time you have a small (in this case, unnamed) creek crossing the trail, you have an opportunity to enjoy some natural air conditioning. Nothing is finer on a hot summer hike than walking through a cool breeze coming down a stream channel. This was the North Fork Quinault trail at mile 10 or so, in the Olympic National Park.
The North Fork Quinault is one of the main access trails into the central area of the Olympic National Park. The Quinault valley is prime rain forest and there are numerous small (often unnamed) streams crossing the trail. The one above was one of these unnamed streams. I was pleased with the way the water blurred with this hand held image.
The image below was taken a few miles further up the valley, close to Low Divide … the point where the trail quits climbing and drops down the a junction with the Elwha River Trail at Chicago Camp. It shows Seattle Creek … which drains off of (wait for it) Mt. Seattle.
On the far side of the valley is the current river bed. The little bit of water in the image is just a few wandering streams that likely show a future river channel. This is the Chilkat River outside of Haines, Alaska.
Bridge Creek is in the Lake Quinault area … and this was taken in the Bridge Creek Campground. I used a tripod and shot at 1/13th of a second, at f/16 and ISO 100 using my Nikon D850. I had gone to take a photo of a small falls that I had shot previously, but there were logs that had washed down and were blocking the view of the falls to where it wasn’t very photogenic.