Man remembers an encounter while fly fishing at a remote lake in the Olympic Mountains near Hood Canal witnessed in Jefferson County, Washington

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It was the summer of 1979 or maybe 1980. My friend and I hiked up the Mt. Jupiter trail to go fly fishing at one of the Jupiter Lakes, which I think might be referred to as #2. You drop down over the ridge to the north before getting to the summit of Mt. Jupiter to reach the first 3 of 5 lakes I believe. There is no trail to the lakes, so you must drop over the ridge to get down to the first lake, sometimes hanging on to a bit of brush. There are 3 lakes on this side. We got to the first, followed the outlet and went and camped at the 2nd lake down. I think we stayed two nights. It was probably the 2nd day when this incident happened. There were some other guys that had camped on the other side of the lake and had left about 2-3 PM I recall. My time frames are not exactly clear anymore. Nonetheless, the guys that had been camping on the opposite side of the lake had left about 3 hours previous to what I call a 'didn't pay enough attention encounter'. I was fly fishing the shoreline sor...