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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Hiking through life






The fire Lookout towers are excellent places to stay. This one used to be manned by the Rangers and was fully rigged in case it was needed. Last winter some jerks found it (that had to ski in) and totally wrecked it and stole stuff. So all the fire looking equiptment was removed (the fire finder, maps, etc). Pretty sad.
Six years ago was The Biscuit Fire in the Kalmiopsis National forest and burned 500,000 acres and also a neighboring tower looked out call Snow Camp. It has since been rebuilt. I was down canoe-ing on the Chetco River (in the area) that year. It was kinda scary. The National forest also has the most northern stand of Redwood in the US. Very impressive and fun to hike in.

1. Chetco River
2. hiking
3. Small redwood
4. Waterfall in woods
5. Fuzzy Eagle