Fire Lookout Life: View from the stairway landing #1 (10' up) in the lookout substructure [View all]

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).

Olympus OM-5 MK2 w/14-150mm lens

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