#fire lookout

[whereifindsanity]

Mount Pilchuck fire lookout by Beau Ramsey

[thecorpsofrediscovery]

Ghost Tree on Bald Mountain Bald Mountain, Kittitas County, Washington State - August 2024 Photographer: Chris Rummel

[primitive-nature]

[ilfaitdusoleil]

Tolmie Peak Fire Lookout - 8/23

[wetlandwanderer]

Day vs Night

[uboacore]

Firewatch!

[siminalbuilds]

here's my fire lookout i built that you can live in for free funded by Ranger Dale. you can also actually work here, but you have to pretend. I basically put notes around the lookout (using Lumpinou's notes mod) to add lore and help understand the characters. if you want to actually do tasks i put a daily tasks tracker on the desk using Ravasheen's journal mod so you can write down the weather and temperature and any campers spotted on the grounds. I also put campfires all around the place so that you an actually put out fires if townies try and light campfires. anyway it is pack heavy and a little cc so ill put it up somewhere soon

[rgf-settings]

Lookout tower c.1950s in Idaho managed by Kristie Wolfe, available for rental through AirBnB. More photos c/o inhabitat.com | Video tour c/o Kirsten Dirksen. Thanks to @lusson on Twitter for heads-up.

AirBnB listing: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/25687274?source_impression_id=p3_1728092369_P37IC9H0auNEtrCB

[pathstobliss]

[faggotfungus]

Photo 72, Charles C. Hadd Sourdough Lookout Album, 1936-1939

[stelleinthestars]

New AU Idea... Hear Me Out

Fears to fathom is a game series with seemingly true stories sent in to devs. There is a more recent game Ironbark Lookout which has two characters I think y'all would enjoy making an au out of. The main character works at a fire lookout tower with their only company being another man named Conner. The main character is named Jack btw. I won't spoil what happens in the game but know it is psychological horror and if you decide to play... the devs figured out how to make a pee mechanic once and never looked back...

There is also the fact that Connor just refers to Jack as new guy for the eternity of the game... I love it and we were joking around while playing how high the chemistry between them is...

Edited to add the no commentary playthrough I found for this.

[valhikes]

Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California

Just a quick bit of peak bagging, looking for a lookout.

[thecorpsofrediscovery]

Jump Off Joe Lookout The last surviving fire lookout in the Naches basin. Current structure built in 1958. Photograph Date: July 2024 Photographer: Chris Rummel

[rabbitcruiser]

Columbia Breaks Fire Interpretive Center, WA

A fire lookout (sometimes also called a fire watcher) is a person assigned the duty to look for fire from atop a building known as a fire lookout tower. These towers are used in remote areas, normally on mountain tops with high elevation and a good view of the surrounding terrain, to spot smoke caused by a wildfire.

Once a possible fire is spotted, "Smoke Reports", or "Lookout Shots" are relayed to the local Emergency Communications Center (ECC), often by radio or phone. A fire lookout can use a device known as an Osborne Fire Finder to obtain the radial in degrees off the tower, and the estimated distance from the tower to the fire.

Part of the lookout's duties include taking weather readings and reporting the findings to the Emergency Communications Center throughout the day. Often several lookouts will overlap in coverage areas and each will “cross” the same smoke, allowing the ECC to use triangulation from the radials to achieve an accurate location of the fire.

Once ground crews and fire suppression aircraft are active in fire suppression, the lookout personnel continue to search for new smoke plumes which may indicate spotting and alterations that pose risks to ground crews.

Source: Wikipedia

[erkmurray]

[ddringo]

Long Lost Love

“Maybe take a break?” Sam shrugs, watching as MJ and Ned make their way past the Shield tape. MJ’s arm is wrapped in bandages, but she looks fine otherwise. Peter breathes a little easier under the mask.

“A break?” Peter can’t believe his ears, “Are you benching me? I really don’t think we can afford that kind of thing right now. You saw how understaffed we were today.”

A stern glance and a soft hand on Peter’s shoulder were all it took for him to feel tears in his eyes. Soaking his mask. “Take a break, okay? Get out of New York. Away from all the things that remind you of this Superhero thing. We don’t want to see you go down out there, and not get back up. We care about you. Understood?”

Peter doesn't like that plan at all.

***

That night Peter sees an ad in the paper for a job that allows him to escape his life and start over, far away from New York.

He takes it.

It's offically been a year since I finished this fic. It's, one of weirdest but also best things I've written.

Authors on AO3, they always talk about how we write for ourselves. And while that's partly true, I write for me, I publish because I want to share my love for this fandom with other. Find likeminded people who can look at this fic and love it, just as much as I do.

And the craziest part? I knew I needed to write this after I walked out of the primere, after watching No way home.

The game this is based on is called firewatch. And it's possible one of my favorit games of all time. It's pretty. It's... soft. Short. The characters are incredible. The atmosphere.

If the whole world was going to forget Peter, then would it really be such a far fetched idea that Peter would take a job as a fire lookout? I mean, it's not really a thing anymore, not in 2000. But it used to be.

Obviously I needed him to talk to someone, anyone, who he had good romantical chemestry with. And since MJ was back home, the choice had to be Gwen.

Not that I don't love MJ, cause I do. She's sassy and powerful. She's cool.

But, MJ wasn't an option. It wouldn't have felt right to have MJ there. Because, well, this was Peter's hidding spot. Learning to accept that he didn't have what he once did. And Gwen helps him do that, even if they never see face to face.

She's just a stranger one the other end of a walkie talkie.

This is what I mean, when I say I write for myself. I write something like this. So out of place that it shouldn't work. But it does.