On June 6, 2020 we had an awesome adventure ride with the California Quad and SideXSide Meetup Group out of the Sacramento Area. We did a loop of approximately 93 miles into the Lassen National Forest starting from Butte Meadows. We visited some very cool geological sites along the way ! Spoiler alert, and I get hit in the face with freezing hail as our windshield froze over! Yeah….roll-up windows and windshield wipers would have been nice!
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The Disappearing Fire Lookout Towers!
Many moon ago, I had the opportunity to be a fire lookout in Northern California. You can read all about it in my book Fire Girl. It was awesome to wake up to a 360 degree view from the top of a mountain. Back in the day, it was a lonely man or woman with a pair of binoculars perched high on a mountain top that spotted forest fires. There aren’t many working fire lookout towers any longer because of modern technology in spotting fires. The Service has made many lookout towers available to rent for a weekend, which I think is pretty cool. Unfortunately a lot of the towers are crumbling or have been completely torn down.
The design of this tower is pretty cool. I hadn’t seen one quite like this.
So let’s take a 4 wheelin’ and hiking trip to Pilot Peak in Plumas County in Northern California!
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