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Related: About this forumFire Lookout Life: View from the stairway landing #1 (10' up) in the lookout substructure

The lookout is 30' high, and has 3 flights of stairs, two landings, and 43 steps up. Each flight gets progressively steeper, with the last stairway being more like a ladder. In a perfect world, the step rise would be a uniform 6", and there would be 60 steps up. But on this tower the stairs are inside the substructure timbers. To get the 6" step rise the stairway has to be built outside the substructure, and that was the design of the first lookout that I worked in Oregon (2009-2013).
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CaliforniaPeggy
(155,590 posts)It's a great photo. Glad I don't have to climb those stairs.
Irish_Dem
(77,162 posts)Those stairs have to be a killer.
GiqueCee
(2,978 posts)... betcha don't get a lot of company up there.
wendyb-NC
(4,517 posts)Thank you, Bo Zarts for sharing the view from your workplace while climbing the steps to get to your office. How many people can do that, and have a view .
I love to see your photos from that workplace in the air. Your photos are stunning, and offer a glimpse of remote western mountain landscapes, with their rugged wild beauty, and the rolling miles that each photo represents something I, and probably most people, don't see that often.
Tom Dyer
(299 posts)I SO support a consistent riser.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.😄😄😄
Chicagogrl1
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erronis
(21,819 posts)In my fly-overs of that area during several decades I've marveled at the expanses of protected lands. Some controlled forestry and other activities, but so much seems unscathed by our rapaciousness. I pray (athiestically, of course) that we can hold on to these patches of nature.
HeartsCanHope
(1,389 posts)My goodness, that climb would be scary!
Hekate
(100,039 posts)They wanted to make nice, get inside, and see the view but oddly enough you didnt like their vibe and shooed them off. You said something about giving a heads-up to some of your cohort across the way
Were the red-caps ever sighted again?