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Read an Excerpt from Poets on the Peaks |
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An excerpt featuring
from Chapter III: "All Along the Watchtower"
The nights were getting colder and every dawn the valley was filled
with a level ocean of churning fog...(continue) |
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An excerpt featuring
from Chapter V: "Cold Brilliant Sun"
In 1955 Philip Whalen was back in the Skagit for his third fire season,
once again manning Sourdough Mountain Lookout... (continue)
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An excerpt featuring
from Chapter IX: "Desolation Adventure"
"Desolation was aptly named," says
Jack Francis, who manned the
lookout in '52.
"No one came..." (continue) |
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An
excerpt from the
"Fire on the Mountain"
Fittingly perhaps, the last two operational fire-watch cabins on
the Upper Skagit today are Kerouac’s on Desolation and Snyder’s
and Whalen’s on Sourdough...(continue) |
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