Jim, the current Desolation LO, has many talents.  One of them is that he is professional artist and taught drawing at Western Washington University here in Bellingham. He sends me a cool Christmas card [...]

Excellent article today on Jim, the Deso Lookout and the wildfire scene.  Wonderful photographs including a night shot with the Milky Way above the lookout. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/on-a-wa-mountain-peak-a-wildfire-lookout-spots-an-uneasy-future bruce

Here are two photos of the Perry Fire this summer taken by Jim Henterly, the  Desolation Lookout.  Both shots are from early on, the second one is of the blowup on the 3d day [...]

Today the Seattle Times ran an article on the Western spruce budworm infestation  of the North Cascades. Accompanying this was an aerial shot looking north of the east side mountains of Ross Lake  You [...]

Jim ( the current Deso Lookout in his 10th year ) is quick to reply to my emails.  However, I have not heard from him in over a week. I would guess he is already [...]

On April 19th the University of Idaho is holding a conference on the art and architecture of fire lookouts.  You can find a reference to it here-- https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/lookoutconference   I love both art and architecture...... [...]

Yikes it is getting busy firewise on the south end of Ross Lake with the fire on the south side of Ruby Mt at 700 acres and growing, and  new fires on Sourdough and [...]

Last week on the trail above Ross Lake Resort I met a couple visiting from Germany.  Jorg was very knowledgeable about Jack Kerouac and had climbed Matterhorn peak in California some years ago.... He [...]

Upper Lake Chelan has a 12,000+ acre fire burning called the Pioneer Fire.  There is a massive response going on with something like 12 helicopters and 700+ firefighters.  Here is a photo taken by [...]

You will see on the main menu -- a new section on the Sourdough Mountain lookout.  I staffed that lookout twice and will be posting some pictures from those days including a painting I [...]