I’d have to look it up if it was. I haven’t seen it. I do have a lot of the Geographiesfrom that period.
I doubt it was ever written because it was such a fiasco. Here again, it wasn’t completely their fault, except they had been warned that this was a bad month. We did have a man who skied the entire Skyline Trail from the Columbia River clear down to the border one winter. We were real concerned about him, too, because he was several days late when he got in here. But he did make it all right. I don’t remember how long it took him. I think he had fairly good weather. But of course, you never had good weather for a long period of time in the winter. Even with a lack of snow, you still had storms come.
Were you ever stationed at the Mount Scott lookout?
In my day, Mount Scoot lookout was not in action, except I think, the first year. The summer of 1946, I think we had somebody up there. And then it was so decrepit that we didn’t use it anymore. It sticks in my mind that the Mount Scott lookout was worked on some to make it so that it could be used.
It wasn’t replaced until 1958.
Okay. What is it used for now, merely an emergency type of situation?
It is only manned during the fire season.
Is it manned all the time in the summertime?
