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Four
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You can't beat
arriving at a summit on a crystal clear day – unless you've arrived
atop one crowned by a proud fire lookout tower! Once the lone outposts
of fire observers, these structures are fast disappearing from the
forest landscape, their fire spotting functions replaces by surveillance
flights and other more cost-effective fire detection methods. Today
fire towers are being saved from destruction owing to the efforts
of volunteer organizations throughout the Adirondack and Catskill
Parks. This backpack-sized guide describes 28 fire tower trails, how
to get to each, the condition of the tower and whether or not it is
open to the public. |
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book tells the story of the towers in the words of the observers who
staffed them, their spouses, children, and friends. Marty Podskoch spent
many months of travel throughout the Adirondacks tracing down these
folks ... a remarkable piece of research and a must-read especially
for those who climb fire tower summits and wonder about the towers'
history. |
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At one time
there were twenty-three fire towers in and arouns the Catskill Mountains.
Author Marty Podskoch has researched the history of each and gathered
the stories of the rangers who supervised them, the observers who
kept watch on the forest and the pilots who replaces them. |
In
1942, the superintendent of Nehasane Park, the vast preserve west of
Long Lake owned by the wealthy Webb family, asked twenty-three year
old Francis Boone to be the observer in the Parks fire tower. This is
the story of that summer in the wilderness—a young woman finding
her way in life alone in a fire tower, thinking of her boyfriend at
war, immersed in her beloved outdoors, and coping with the ever present
danger of living alone in the woods. |
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