Fred A. Fletcher photographs, 1921

Written on verso: This shows a typical portion of the trail between Hoh and Bogachiel Rivers before the storm. The opening visible behind the trees is a cedar swamp. The woods is typical of the hemlock forests which covered the entire distance between the rivers and from mountains to beach, an area of several hundred square miles. Note the little down timber visible. Sent to offer a means of comparison with post-storm pictures.

Written on verso: Several crews of 3 or 4 men each are working sometimes 7 days of the week in the effort to open the trails and establish regular communications with Forks and outside points.

Written on verso of 3a: All these storm pictures taken on route indicated by dotted road (trail).

Written on verso: This is what happened to the bridges. Most (many) of the dozen or so bridges between the rivers and on the trail up and down the rivers are completely ruined - this is a fair sample.

Written on verso: Note the general confusion of everything. Nobody can safely travel alone in woods like these as it would be the easiest thing in the world to slip off and break a leg when climbing the innumerable logs and sticks and upturned roots.

Written on verso: This is near the ocean beach 2 or 3 miles west of Hoh P.O. While the storm was not so severe in the river valleys the higher lands and river divides are mowed as if by a giant scythe even this far west.

Written on verso: Looking toward the mail box from the Upper Hoh trail. Here you could not see 50 feet into the woods on either side of the trail. The hound offers a means of comparison for size.

Written on verson: Trail marked with x.

Written on verso: The trail is covered up for miles. It is over territory like this that mail and in some instances supplies was brought just after the storm.

Written on verso: When roots turned up they often took whole pieces of the trail up with them. Note the neat puncheon still lying on the root in the picture. This is one of the reasons nobody can hkeep on the trails, obstructions like this are numerous.

Written on verso: A huge cedar tipped down off the hillside - note its size in comparison with the trail (x). Cedar did not suffer much and fallen cedar will remain sound for years.

Written on verso: Part of the foot trail between the mail box and the x on trail toward Spruce. Note the lack of trees in the background. At one time this was a forest so dense that the flickering sunlight seldom reached the ground. Note how the ends of the cut lots are split the strain on the wood that causes this splitting makes the logs very hard to saw occasioning what woodsmen call "pinching of the saw".

Written on verso: Where John Dengate began to cut out the trail toward Forks about 2 miles above where the trail toward Hoh leaves the uplands and enters the river valleys.

Written on verso: This is Dewey the elk buck now in Woodland Park of Seattle, photo taken by F. Fletcher when the elk was 6 mos or so of age. Raised at Spruce Wash. Sold when 1 1/2 years of age to Seattle Park Boards.

Written on verso: A band on the North Fork of the Hoh River - 2 bucks, 2 calves, 1 yearling, 9 mature cows.

Written on verso: Note the Indian dugout canoe. They are almost universally used in crossing the swift rivers of the Olympic Peninsula.

Written on verso: Settlers of the Upper Hoh bring in most of their supplies on horseback, those on the lower Hoh get theirs by boat from Hoquiam. A large part of the cargo of a boat sent this spring for Queets and Hoh was spoiled with gasoline and seawater when she ran aground in the river's mouth. The boat was saved almost unhurt.