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Solitude.
This is a view from a recent hike I took up Mount Pilchuck, a peak near Granite Falls, WA. There is a fire lookout at the top of the 3-mile hike (half of which was still covered in snow) that affords this fantastic, unobstructed, 360-degree vista.
The lookout was built in 1918, was renovated and now features pictures of some of the folks who had hiked up the same mountain and no doubt experienced the same profound connection with nature that I did that day.
This state-wide map of all the fire lookout towers kind of blew me away. And here’s a great quote from this (PDF) article on the history of fire lookouts in Washington State:
For decades, people have spent summers as fire lookouts scanning the skies for smoke or enemy airplanes, reading pulp fiction, chasing mice and befriending mountain goats, eating beans and hauling water. “It was a great life,” wrote Ray Kresek in Fire Lookouts of the Northwest.
It still is.
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Posted: July 18th, 2009 under nature, photos.
Tags: hiking, mount pilchuck, mountain, nature, solitude, views