Looks like it will be a good book
Currently starting to read a memoir -- The Last Lookout on Dunn Peak. It is about a couple from back East that staffed some LOs in St. Joes Forest in Idaho in the early 1970s. [...]
Sourdough LO
Here is a similar shot of me one time manning the nearby Sourdough LO --- which has a long series of steps up --- good times !
Passing picture
My son took this picture of me standing in the Deso doorway. I am usually smiling LO duty but I looked at little pensive that day.....probably quiet with little radio traffic, no smokes and no [...]
Panoramic Photos
As many of you know---back in the 1930s the USFS had photographers do panoramic photos from many lookout sites in the West---and that includes Desolation Peak. This last Sunday's Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine had [...]
North Cascades Poster
My good friend Bruce R. sent me a small version of one of those classic old time National Park posters. I didn't know there was one for the North Cascades, a mostly unknown park. But [...]
Sourdough Fire blew up again
9-17-23 Well the fire blew up again with several days of hot summer weather. So far the North Cascades Pass is still open however. Here is a shot from yesterday...click on this link-- Sourdough Fire [...]
New York Times article
Wonderful surprise this morning in the New York Times -- an article on Fire Lookouts. Please see: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/climate/wildfire-lookouts-fire-towers.htm This article may be behind a paywall so hopefully many of you are NYT subscribers........... Desolation Peak [...]
North Cascades Pass
Has reopened again as of this morning 🙂, there is now an additional fire along the Pass east of Sourdough around Blue Lake
Highway 20 closed again…. 8-13-23
Highway 20 was closed again the other day. The north unit of North Cascades Park is still shut down, campgrounds, boat traffic......... They did get my old LO wrapped ---Sourdough. Yahoo !! Thank heavens : [...]
Highway 20 reopens
8-9-23 Highway 20 which is the North Cascades Pass has been closed for several days because of the Sourdough Fire. It was been reopened. So you will be able to access the East Bank Trailhead.