Not the best photo but a great story. My son Dusty and I hiked into the Chalet 13 miles in Feb. on a very low snow year ( norm here is a few feet of snow in Feb. ) and found the chalet only a few feet from being washing into the Quanault River. The chalet was built in 1931/32 and every brick was packed in by mule train. A set of brothers built this as a hunting lodge before the Olympic Park was established and charged a buck a night to stay there. Also, in pre-park days talk was a road maybe going over Anderson Pass to cross the Olympics east to west coming over from the Dosewallops River and down this Valley. Wisely, it never happened and is now one of the " Crown Jewl " parks of our nation. These three story bulding was used as a weather station /// army lookout for Jap planes in WWII that may try to cut across the Olympics to nail Bremerton Ship Yards, Boeing and a few other targets.... This photo and story in Feb. 2005 brought the " Heat " on the Park Service to save the bulding for falling into the river after a log jam rerouted it 200 yards across the meadow to 15 ft. from old lodge ( which is a sweet treat in bad weather in the winter!! )