sweltering windless dusty dry day two hikers up at [...]

    reading on step mind away park radio clicks [...]

      sawing of the wind shutters creak black [...]

  fluid slow evening gin, tonic, lime high all around

    pair of osprey flirting way above the lake [...]

    Ross Mule motors far below flies buzz long [...]

    wind, fog, cold not seeing, not knowing day [...]

  " buk…buk….buk " moving rocks pecking ptarmigan

  a match strike, flash, pop blue flame hisses

  radio silent not moving then suddenly voices

  it is so fun to captain a mountain and [...]

  jagged black sharp rock slicing soft white pink clouds

  cloud blanket pierced over here over there

  storm clouds broken open by the sun yellow yolks [...]

I took a small folio style Moleskinne notebook with [...]

Here is what the notebook looks like unfolded: [...]

Sourdough Lookout from the northwest

This is the Park Radio in use when we [...]

 This is a top view of the radio with [...]

This is the Osborne firefinger sitting on the central [...]

This is an overhead drawing of the Osborne [...]

Park Service binoculars --didn't work well [...]

Desk on Sourdough LO

Sling psychrometer for measuring humidity---you wet the bulb on the [...]

Bench for the desk at Desolation + the propane [...]

Window details form Desolation --- I love how they [...]

Lightning Stool with insulators and a detail of the [...]

Panoramic drawing from Desolation to the southeast showing Jack [...]

Cabinet in the Desolation lookout

This is the Osborne and stand viewed from the [...]