Regular readers may remember recent posts showing some of the areas that have burned in the Olympic National Park from the Bear Gulch fire. While burning primarily up the valley of the North Fork Skokomish, the fire has jumped across the Duckabush River valley and is burning a section of forest just east of the Hart Lake area. Since most winds in the area blow from the west or south, hopefully the fire will not spread over to the Hart Lake vicinity. (Fingers crossed).
These were taken within a few minutes of each other … but with such different moods. Hart Lake is in the Upper Duckabush valley in the middle of the Olympic National Park.
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.
This is Hart Lake in the Upper Duckabush area of the Olympic National Park. There is more discussion of the location in a previous post (https://ajjphotoblog.com/?p=13156). This was taken from our campsite shortly after sunrise. The mist burned off shortly afterwards.
Mt Steel is in the south central Olympics and is best seen from the Hart Lake area. This shot was just lucky … as the evening mists were moving in, a break offered a glimpse of the moon above a shoulder of Mt Steel.