And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Here's a short link that mentions the Abbey connection: https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/local/lassen-volcanic-np-says-harkness-lookout-destroyed-drakesbad-guest-ranch-survived/article_34c18282-b601-57a8-afa7-6cc632e17d9d.html
Edward Abbey writes about living in a remote Park Service lookout for months on end.
ReplyDeleteOne of which was just up the road here in Lassen N.P.
DeleteCW - Have you visited it???
DeleteIt burned down in one of our recent forest fires, unfortunately.
Deletehttps://www.redding.com/story/news/2021/08/07/dixie-fire-burns-historic-fire-lookout-lassen-volcanic-national-park/5528998001/
Here's a short link that mentions the Abbey connection: https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/local/lassen-volcanic-np-says-harkness-lookout-destroyed-drakesbad-guest-ranch-survived/article_34c18282-b601-57a8-afa7-6cc632e17d9d.html
DeleteMount Fremont lookout in Mount Rainier National Park. The big meadow is Grand Park the largest meadow in the park.
ReplyDeleteBeen there on wifee's #50. Got a great shot of her holding up 5 and zero with Rainier as a spectre in the back ground. Favorite hike of my life.
DeleteThere were a couple of seasonal lookouts who did youtube shorts, I enjoyed them.
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