The Brothers Wilderness lies just outside of the Olympic National Park and is noted for the double peak which is 6860 ft MSL. The area is just a short flight from my home base at KPWT. This morning was clear and sunny with a brisk north breeze and mountain clouds. The Oympics looked clear of clouds for a short time but that window closed before I could launch and climb to altitude. The Brothers were obscured but still afforded some pretty good photography:
The clouds were moving, so I circled at 6500 feet and got a little better look. The two distinct peaks are now discernable:
Just to the East of the Wilderness on Hood Canal lies a little marina near the mouth of the Duckabush River. There are many such Marinas on Hood Canal. In the picture the mouth of the Dosewallips River can be seen in the background. Much of the geography in the area have Indian names and they are fun to say; say Dosewallips :
This is the mouth of the Duckabush:
The two rivers lie just south of the town of Brinnon on this map of Hood Canal:
We also have floating bridges. Some no longer float but have been sunk by storms. This is the Hood Canal floating bridge (number 2), the original bridge was sunk in 1979 by a catastropic windstorm. Hatches in the concrete pontoons were blown open and a large segment of the bridge went to the bottom:
There is a center drawspan in the bridge which opens to allow large vessels into the Canal. Nuclear subs frequently enter to visit their Bangor base:
I was hoping to get shots of Mt. Olympus but it was shrouded today and I'll look forward to doing that another day.
Tony
The clouds were moving, so I circled at 6500 feet and got a little better look. The two distinct peaks are now discernable:
Just to the East of the Wilderness on Hood Canal lies a little marina near the mouth of the Duckabush River. There are many such Marinas on Hood Canal. In the picture the mouth of the Dosewallips River can be seen in the background. Much of the geography in the area have Indian names and they are fun to say; say Dosewallips :
This is the mouth of the Duckabush:
The two rivers lie just south of the town of Brinnon on this map of Hood Canal:
We also have floating bridges. Some no longer float but have been sunk by storms. This is the Hood Canal floating bridge (number 2), the original bridge was sunk in 1979 by a catastropic windstorm. Hatches in the concrete pontoons were blown open and a large segment of the bridge went to the bottom:
There is a center drawspan in the bridge which opens to allow large vessels into the Canal. Nuclear subs frequently enter to visit their Bangor base:
I was hoping to get shots of Mt. Olympus but it was shrouded today and I'll look forward to doing that another day.
Tony