Fire Lookout Dawn - Bitterroot Range (looking east into northwestern Montana)

[Bo Zarts]

Idaho Panhandle - Labor Day 9/3/2024
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[hlthe2b]

1. Really Beautiful. Do you have your dog up there with you?

[Bo Zarts]

4. Sadly, we lost sweet Nick in 2018.

I just haven't had the heart to replace him. He was the perfect fire lookout dog.


Nick watching for deer from the fire lookout tower in Oregon in 2009.

[dameatball]

5. Not sure how many recs I can give ol Nick. Not enough.

[hlthe2b]

10. Oh, I am so very sorry. I know how special he was to you. We never forget those 4-legged blessings in our lives.

for Nick...

(now I know why the bear dared to come so relatively close)...

[flying_wahini]

2. I guess you check the sky at night all the time? How does that work?

When can you sleep?

[Permanut]

3. Ethereal.

[NJCher]

6. so you live in a glass house?

How did you get that pic? Did you have to crawl up another mountain to take it?

[Bo Zarts]

8. I finally got a drone just so I could get these types of photos ..

A DJI Mini-3 PRO to be specific.

[NJCher]

11. I'm sure you're aware of this

but plenty of people would like to live in a glass house, but have no way to have privacy plus the glass house.

There are situations like this on the ground, but few and far between.

I had a friend who spent $40k on drapes for privacy for one glass wall on a house in the woods.

Anyway, lucky you, and I always enjoy your photographs. On this one I particularly liked the orange and yellow at the top and the gradation of the blues and greys of the mountain. Then the little glass house, all lit up. Very cozy.

[Bo Zarts]

12. E.M. Forster would have called it "A Room with a View." But a view out is often a view in, too.

The standard L-4 design for US Forest Service fire lookout live-in cabins, which specifies one 15'x15' "glass" room, goes way, way back. The glass .. while esthetically pleasing .. is to facilitate spotting forest fires .. nothing else. I have even worked in lookouts that are so old, and without remodeling, that they have "wavy" glass panes from the 1920s and 30s. And if someone can see in, even out in the wilderness, then it is totally their problem (in many more ways than one).

[AllaN01Bear]

7. om goodness.

[Fla Dem]

9. Wow! Great picture.