Vyrážame ešte pred úsvitom, ráno je mrazivé, vidíme ranný Olympic pokrytý snehom, dole v údoliach sa stále ešte prevaľuje hmla. Dobré ráno na premýšľanie o zmysle života. Raňajkujeme/obedujeme až pri jazere Crescent, opravujem ďalší Baškin defekt. Jazero je nádherné, obrovské a hlavne je to pravé ľadovcové jazero, žiadna priehrada. Za jazerom sa dostávame ku vstupu do údolia rieky Sol Duc, zároveň aj do národného parku. Park je samozrejme zavretý, pretože páni politici sa nevedia dohodnúť na rozpočte. Ale nás nejaká závora ani debilní politici neodradili od toho pozrieť si aspoň kúsok z Olympicu, skrátka sme závoru obišli a mali celý park pre seba. Nakoniec to bolo hádam lepšie ako keby bol otvorený, žiadne smrduté autá, ticho, nikde nikoho, celá cesta iba pre nás... Lesy začínali byť divokejšie a zachovalejšie, ako sme sa blížili ku Sol Duc Hot Springs. Kúpanie sa v teplých prameňoch sa však nekonalo, všetko bolo zavreté v zavretom hoteli, kapitalizmus musí byť, nič zadarmo! Aspoň, že hviezde nebo alebo húkanie sov bolo zadarmo...
Meditative, morning, nice views on Olympic covered with snow, fresh clear air, fog on the bottom of valleys, good time for thinking, it's good to start early in the morning. Breakfast/lunch by lake Crescent and repairing Baška's flat tire. Lake Crescent was amazing, real glacial lake, not damn man made dam (what were most of the "lakes" what we saw). Tall above was King Storm Mountain. After the lake was entrance to the Olympic National Park, closed of course b/c of that stupid government shutdown. But nobody was guarding the entrance and b/c we didn't agree that a few ordinary people have right to "close" mountains, just to get better bargain, we passed that closed gate (wasn't Slovakproof closed) and have whole Sol Duc Valley for ourself. We had lunch in the middle of road, biked next to each other. Well, maybe that closure wasn't so bad idea at all. How often you can be in empty National Park, no noisy, smelly cars, RVs, trailers, no noisy smelly people... Just nature around us. And what a nature, as we went higher and closer to Sol Duc Hot Springs the trees were bigger and bigger. Everything was in all possible shades of green, covered by moss, ferns, which grew on the ground and also on the trees, it was something like to be in heaven, probably better :-) Sol Duc Hot Springs was disappointment, no accessible hot springs, everything was in hotel which was closed, not b/c of government but b/c of season. Well, why should be something for free if you can pay for it? At least the stars were for fee and also the owl's concert in the night.
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