Lookouts: Firewatchers of the Cascades and Olympics, 2nd Edition

by Ira Spring

Book Overview

Guide to fire lookouts of the Pacific Northwest, with photos by Ira Spring and many historical photos. Includes history and hiking information. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898864941
• ISBN13: 9780898864946
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A truly interesting and concise collection of forest fire lookout Americana.

I believe this book is expertly researched and should be part of everyone's collection of outdoor guides. Once the most advanced means of fire detection, the fire-protection lookout towers built and manned in the 1900's in Washington State are now historic sites and an intrinsic part of the heritage of the Northwest and its people.. This book is a complete history of the lookouts and tribute to the people who often endured challenging conditions, from loneliness to forbidding weather, while serving as firewatchers. Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest Mount Rainier National Park Olympic National Park Gifford Pinchot national forest Wenatchee NF Okanogan NF *****My favourite hikes from the book to some cool lookouts-Pete Miller's Treehouse in the Olympics, Burley Mountain and Lost Lake in the Gifford Pinchot, Sugarlaof Peak, Red Mountain and Thorp Mountain (saw a cougar-WAS BIG!!!!) in the Wenatchee NF, Slate Peak, North twentymile Peak, Lookout Mountain in the Okanogan NF.