Be nice, iceman.

Ha Ha. A couple of old A holes is more like it. You shoulda flown up Butch.

Gump

tcj wrote:.......I hope the information in this article wasn't provided by a FS employee. It's an Osborne Fire Finder, not an enormous compass........

I watched a movie a while back that I think showed one of these in action-- "The Ranger The Cook, and a Hole in the Sky" with Sam Elliott. The fire finder was a big compassy looking apparatus, with which you could shoot the asumith of a fire you spotted. I think there was some sort of range-finding arrangement too. Then you laid the heading out on a map and triangulate with the range to pinpoint the location.
My aunt (long dead now) worked as a fire-watch in the Olympic Mountians back in the 1940's. She was quite an outdoorswoman. Later after she got married and had a family, she used a packstring of burros to take some of us kids (the lucky ones) camping. Later yet she participated in 100 mile endurance rides and even the Bicentennial Crosscountry Horse race riding her mule Hugo.

It usually required at least two lookouts to get a line on a "smoke" then they each called in on an old hard wire field phone and each line was laid out on a map so that X marks the spot. Half the back country of Idaho used to be held together with that damned old hard wire and the other half with baling wire.
My dad used to be on a "hot shot" crew, years before they had such cute names for it.. When they (US Funny circus) got a fix on a "smoke" he was sent in by pack string or on foot to fight the fire
When we were kids we had these old forest service sleeping bags that I'm sure had refrigeration systems in them. They had some sort of a machine that would roll them up back at the station so they were so tight they were like a three foot long pine log. These were hauled in by truck, horse, or dropped by plane and a great many of them were left in the woods rather that haul them out so everybody had them. Green canvas with big old brass snaps that would leave frost burns on your skin when it was really cold out.
We thought they were just great when we camped out in the pasture all summer.

GumpAir wrote:Ha Ha. A couple of old A holes is more like it. You shoulda flown up Butch.

Gump

4 hour flight at least from here,(North Tijuana) we'll all get together one of these months... if you guys don't keep scheduling get togethers when I"m in Hawaii...a weekend camp out or stay in someones hangar in Columbia would be nice....

moonbow and jets tonight

tcj wrote:

Established as a lookout post in the 1930's, a trailer lookout was added in 1960. The present hip-roof 2-story R-6 cab, built in 1977, is staffed in the summer.

http://www.firelookout.com/id/harrison.html



I hope the information in this article wasn't provided by a FS employee. It's an Osborne Fire Finder, not an enormous compass.

"The lookout still houses fire location equipment, including an enormous compass."
http://magicvalley.com/lifestyles/recre ... 8802f.html

Thanks for the info tcj, I could of swore that shack was new. I still find it hard to believe they bothered to pave the road, and it sure looked like a very recent seal coat on it also, that got me thinking the whole shebang was new. Could have been that great AM light but the shack was gleaming, and in extremely good repair. That has to be one of the highest in Idaho I'm thinking? The other reason I didn't think it was there earlier was last year I landed a very nearby site at 8800' and somehow missed seeing it! There is a lot of country to see around these parts, and sometimes, even after nearly 35 years of SE Idaho flying, I still feel like I'm just getting started, something new all the time!

I found an outhouse at 13,803'. Anybody going to Kona next month in December?

Posted these on super cub site but figured some of y'all might enjoy em here too. Flew to the outfitter I work with's ranch to pick up some mule deer mounts for some clients from last season, as well as one of mine too, that'd be the one hangin on the wall now

Robbing the cradle again I see. :Awesome Texas mulie. Congrats.

Waylon wasn't happy I'll bet.

Waylon was delegated to the extended baggage and didnt get left, so he was happy even if he did have some funky passengers

Also found a new secret spot on the way back, but I plan to keep that secret HA!!!

8GCBC wrote:I found an outhouse at 13,803'. Anybody going to Kona next month in December?

was just there last month... drove up to the info center below the summit... didn't have 4 whl drive to make the trip to the top... was 50 degrees there though when it was mid 80's in Kona....

iceman wrote:

8GCBC wrote:I found an outhouse at 13,803'. Anybody going to Kona next month in December?

was just there last month... drove up to the info center below the summit... didn't have 4 whl drive to make the trip to the top... was 50 degrees there though when it was mid 80's in Kona....

That first switch back after the visitor center is the worst one! I have stopped there also and turned around in my 2 wheel drive before. Arriving 31-DEC Kona. My XR650L dirt bike is waiting....

8GCBC wrote:I found an outhouse at 13,803'. Anybody going to Kona next month in December?

Boy I wish we could be there in December. Amazing place, got me hooked on Kona Coffee.

The only place I know of where you can snow ski and surf on the same day. Envious.

Skalywag wrote:Also found a new secret spot on the way back, but I plan to keep that secret HA!!!

Only be a secret until I can sneak my InReach on board. HA! back at ya.

The wife and i flew down to Harris ranch 3O8 for same dead cow. yum very cool that this place has a runway! not back country stuff but still cool

8GCBC wrote:

iceman wrote:

8GCBC wrote:I found an outhouse at 13,803'. Anybody going to Kona next month in December?

was just there last month... drove up to the info center below the summit... didn't have 4 whl drive to make the trip to the top... was 50 degrees there though when it was mid 80's in Kona....

That first switch back after the visitor center is the worst one! I have stopped there also and turned around in my 2 wheel drive before. Arriving 31-DEC Kona. My XR650L dirt bike is waiting....

Looks like you were down at South Point at Green Sand beach.
We were just there a few weeks back for Ironman. First time on the big island for us. Pretty cool place. Next time we will get the dual sport bikes.
Did the night Manta dive. Awesome dive for a canned dive. It snowed twice while we were there and it was cool to be laying on the beach and see the snow capped volcanos.

"Lower" Mineral Canyon. More on this later when I get the video edited.

wow, now that is a sh*t of a day!

Good thing it's not April!