(all photos this page by Darryl Lloyd)
Easternmost Bird Creek Meadows (9/7), with Round-the-Mountain Trail #9 identified:
Burn patchwork in heavily logged areas at about the 4,000-ft. level. View is toward the east over tribal, private and WA DNR lands. Trees and Bird Creek Rd. in lower part of photo are in GPNF:
Approaching Mirror Lake from the south. Bird Lake road is visible in center-left.
Mirror Lake looking south. Bird Lake road in lower-center. This area last burned in 1885.
Bird Lake looking south. Most of the campground was destroyed.
Bluff Lake looking south.
Bench Lake looking east. Most of the campground was spared.
Easternmost Bird Creek Meadows. Bench Lake in background.
Westernmost Bird Creek Meadows and Gotchen meadows in GPNF (at left)..
Western part of the Yakama Nation Recreation Area. The ridge at lower-right is the Yakama Reservation/GPNF boundary. Bird Lake at far left.
