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Olympic National Park, September 2002 Margaret and I spent Labor Day weekend 2002 in Olympic National Park. We didn't get our plans finalized until the last minute, so we drove over early Saturday morning without a permit, thinking there was no way we'd get into the very popular 7 Lakes Basin/High Divide area and thinking we'd meet up with friends in the Elwha River valley. But when we got to the WIC, we were able to put together a 3-day trip--night one at Heart Lake junction, a few hundred feet above Heart Lake where the Heart Lake trail meets the high divide; night two at Hoh Lake, just down the south side from the high divide trail. (Intrepid readers will recognize this as a similar trip to the one I took in 2000. It's definitely worth going back more than once!) Both camps turned out to be excellent, with great views of Mt Olympus. Each evening we had fantastic weather, but each morning it was gray and rainy. (Monday proved to remain gray and rainy for most of our hike back to the car.) We saw 2 black bears eating berries on the slopes across Hoh Lake from our camp. Olympus view from camp 1 Mt Olympus sunset Heart Lake Margaret in flowers 7 Lakes basin 7 Lakes View Horses on the high divide Olympus view Joel in Hoh lake Olympus sunset

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