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.  They returned years later to staff one again. So far the book has been a lot of fun.  Here is [...]

Looks like it will be a good book

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 !

Sourdough LO

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 hikers--  

Passing picture

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 an article about a fellow named John Marshall from Wenatchee who is redoing many of those shots.  Now with the [...]

Panoramic Photos

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 not only that - it features the Deso Lookout, Hozomeen, and Ross Lake.  There are many spectacular places in the [...]

North Cascades Poster

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 9-17

Sourdough Fire blew up again

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 and Jack Kerouac are mentioned........ bruce

New York Times article

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

North Cascades Pass

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  : ) ------- I staffed that LO twice in the past and I am emotionally attached. Incredible views up there......  Hopefully [...]

Highway 20 closed again…. 8-13-23

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.

Highway 20 reopens
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