Haiku

# 1

sweltering windless dusty dry day
two hikers up at LO
they say two cold beers in a gunny sack
off end of trailhead dock
in the lake

far below

# 2

reading on step
mind away
park radio clicks on
back now

# 3

sawing of the wind

shutters creak
black and white mountains
silent

# 4

fluid slow evening
gin, tonic, lime
high all around

# 5

pair of osprey flirting
way above the lake
over and over
loops of romance
shrieks of joy

# 6

Ross Mule motors far below
flies buzz
long slow day

# 7

wind, fog, cold
not seeing, not knowing
day night

# 8

” buk…buk….buk ”
moving rocks
pecking ptarmigan

# 9

a match
strike, flash, pop
blue flame hisses

# 10

radio silent not moving
then suddenly
voices

# 11

it is so fun to captain a mountain
and see the nearest star smile
and wink a last good night to you
in the sky water mirror

# 12

jagged black sharp rock
slicing
soft white pink clouds

# 13

cloud blanket
pierced
over here
over there

# 14

storm clouds broken open
by the sun
yellow yolks
shot thru with light

Drawing # 1

I took a small folio style Moleskinne notebook with me on all three North Cascades Park assignments. They are simple pencil drawings and you can page thru them here…….

Drawing # 2

Here is what the notebook looks like unfolded:

Drawing # 4

This is the Park Radio used in staffing the LOs

Drawing # 5

This is a top view of the radio with the antenna, channel selector, squelch, & volume

Drawing # 6

This is the Osborne firefinger sitting two of the three rods with the cupboard underneath

Drawing # 7

This is an overhead drawing of the Osborne

Drawing # 8

Park Service binoculars –hard to focus, worn out

Sling psychrometer for measuring humidity—you wet the bulb on the end of one of the thermometers and then whirl the contraption by hand from the chain
to get the reading between the wet and dry thermometers