In this second installment of Overland Bounds travels in Sequoia National Park, we explore Buck Rock Lookout, one of the last operational US Forest Service lookouts. Travel with us as we ascend 172 steps to the breathtaking perch atop a granite dome with breathtaking views of the Great Western Divide. By the end of the 1930’s, there were over 800 lookouts in California. Buck Rock Lookout casts is gaze from 8500 feet!
\nThe Lookout
\nWay above the forests, that are in my care.
\nWatching for the curling smoke\u2014looking everywhere,
\nTied onto the world below by a telephone,
\nHigh, and sometimes lonesome\u2014living here alone,
\nSnow peaks on the skyline, woods and rocky ground,
\nThe green of Alpine meadows circle me around,
\nWaves of mountain ranges like billows of the sea\u2014
\nSeems like in the whole wide world there’s not a soul but me.
\nPeering thru the drift of smoke, sighting thru the haze.
\nBlinking at the lightning on the stormy days,
\nHere to guard the forests from the Red Wolf’s tongue
\nI stay until they take me down, when the fall snows come.
\n\u2014 Robin Adair
\nCalifornia District Newsletter, April 1927<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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