Fire Lookout Friday: Monument 83, Part 1

One of Washington's most remote fire lookouts has a blowdowns-per-mile problem

Monument 83 sits on the US-Canada border on a summit called Holdover Peak, and it might just be the most remote fire lookout in Washington State. Getting there requires navigating miles of beetle-killed blowdown so legendary it has spawned its own trail metric: blowdowns per mile (BdpM). This is the story of my first two attempts—and why Monument 83 was fully prepared to make me wait.

Fire Lookout Friday is a weekly podcast and newsletter about Washington's historic fire lookouts—their stories, their history, and the ridiculous things that happen when you decide to visit all of them. And then staff one.

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