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.
Moon Over Mt Steel
Views of Mt Steel
I take most of my images in color. In the old days, that was film … these days the images provided by most cameras are full color with sensor sites recording red, blue or green. Once you import the image file into a computer, the image can be converted to black and white and adjusted … similar in many ways to the work that was done with film based images while in the darkroom.
These images were of Mt Steel at the upper end of the Duckabush valley in the Olympic National Park.
Mountain Meadow
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.
O’Neil Pass and Mt Steel
Mt Steel is just south of O’Neil Pass. Lt. O’Neil established the first route across the south Olympics from Hoodsport to the Quinault in the 1890’s. The pass separates the Duckabush Valley from the East Fork Quinault Valley (The Enchanted Valley). It’s a beautiful remote area of the Olympic National Park. The image below is the same view but in a portrait mode.
Hart Lake View — North and South
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.
