![]() ![]() ![]() Palomar Mountain Past and Present (history)Ĭollins, Phillip Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (memoirs- Gila NF, N.M. And Norman Maclean, in his great book A River Runs Through It, wrote a lightly fictionalized story about his one summer as a lookout on the Selway Forest in northern Idaho, over the Bitterroot Divide from his home in Missoula, Montana.įrom Fire Season – Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout by Phillip Connors – HarperCollins Publishers 2011,īecker, Marion F. He wrote two essays on the subject and made a fire lookout the main character in his novel Black Sun, the book he claimed he loved most among all his works. During the 1960s and ‘70s the old raconteur Edward Abbey worked as a lookout in various postings, from Glacier National Park to the Grand Canyon. ![]() He secured the job through a recommendation by his friend the poet Gary Snyder, who worked summers on two different lookouts in the same national forest and wrote several fine poems about the experience. Jack Kerouac worked a summer on Desolation Peak in the North Cascades in 1956, an experience he mined for parts of two novels, The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels. Nonetheless, when the last lookout tower is retired, our stories will live on. Ninety percent of American lookout towers have been decommissioned, and only a few hundred of us remain, mostly in the West and Alaska. The work has changed remarkably little over the course of the past century, except in its increasing scarcity. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout Author : Philip Connors Published : Support National Parks Traveler, and purchase this product at Without doubt, this was the most enjoyable read I’ve had all year. If there’s a better job anywhere on the planet, I’d like to know what it is. ![]()
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