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Article: OLYMPIC-SIZE VIEWS KEEP SHUTTERS CLICKING IN THE ROYAL BASIN.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 11, 1998
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The first time I visited Royal Basin in Olympic National Park was not under the best of circumstances. It was a rainy Labor Day weekend and my hiking partner had taken a face-plant on the trail and was grumpy.
Worse, she dropped her camera in a stream, and having a malfunctioning camera in Royal Basin is almost as bad as not being there.
By the time we reached Shelter Rock near Royal Lake, an area blackened from hundreds of campfires (now banned in the park at elevations above 3,500 feet), the rain had stopped and mist hung in the valley. We had the place to ourselves.
We explored the upper basin the rest of the afternoon and found it bleak ...