Hart Lake is in the Upper Duckabush River area of the Olympic National Park. It’s quite remote, keeping the number of visitors down well below the number that visit the more accessible areas of the park (i.e. The High Divide). The image above shows the outflow of the small lake and the view across the Duckabush Valley to Mt Steel. The image below shows the view north from about the same location. I thought the clouds were wonderful.
Mare’s Tail (Cirrus uncinus) clouds are fairly common and are usually formed as warm, dry air rises. They can sometimes be an indicator of a cold front moving into the area … but when you see one isolated cloud, they don’t provide any forecasting power. When I saw this one, I was in the middle of the Olympic National Park and a long ways from any trailhead. We were very pleased when the next few days stayed sunny and dry.
More of my favorite images with mist, trees and ridges. These are in the Quinault Rain Forest of the Olympic National Park.
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.
Fog and mist blowing through the trees and up valleys makes a dramatic scene. Always a favorite of mine.
