Ep. 710: Fire Lookout Tower Adventures - Revisited - Amber Casali
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired May 7, 2018
On today's show, Amber Casali joins Curt to fill us in on everything we didn't know about fire lookout towers. Born and raised in Seattle, Amber Casali considers herself a stereotypical Pacific Northwesterner, someone who loves the outdoors and relishes the natural beauty of our region. She has summited Mount Adams, Mount Baker, and Mount Rainier; section hiked most of Washington’s PCT, including six days solo in Glacier Peak Wilderness; successfully taken the Washington Alpine Club’s Basic Climbing and Mountaineering course; and she has recently become certified in Wilderness First Aid, through NOLS. Stay tuned. This show has some really interesting information you don't want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | And they were instructed to stand on the lightning stool during an active lightning storm for the whole duration of the lightning storm. |
| 0:10.7 | I read that that could definitely be uncomfortable for the staff. Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | It might sound a little bit different today. |
| 0:35.7 | And we're uploading just a hair later than usual and that's |
| 0:38.9 | because I recording remotely today so um just on the road and yeah today's topic today's adventure |
| 0:46.8 | sports topic is fire lookout towers have you ever seen one of those giant towers on the side |
| 0:52.6 | of the road out in the woods somewhere or on top of a |
| 0:55.5 | mountain and thought do people ever go up there and yes they do i used to hike to plenty of them |
| 1:01.3 | out the mountains but there are plenty where people still live in still use all around the country |
| 1:07.8 | they're they're actually used but in many places they're also abandoned but today's |
| 1:12.0 | topic we're just going to be talking about that how to get to some and uh this is a throwback episode |
| 1:17.1 | with kurt from three years ago now so i hope you enjoy and you'll be hearing from us again on |
| 1:23.5 | monday Monday. |
| 1:38.1 | Today is a unique show. |
| 1:42.8 | I don't know how many of you have traveled to some of the national parks and seen some of the old structures that were built |
| 1:45.3 | years and years ago, or if you've seen some of the old bridges on the old two-lane roads that |
| 1:50.8 | just kind of speak about our past and our history and where we came from. Today, we're talking |
| 1:56.2 | about some old structures that served a very unique and meaningful purpose in our natural heritage in the |
| 2:02.7 | United States. We're talking about fire lookouts, fire lookouts with Amber Casali, and Amber |
| 2:09.7 | has written the book on fire lookouts, hiking Washington's fire lookouts, to be specific. |
| 2:16.1 | So today we're going to learn a lot about the history of |
| 2:19.2 | these things, about the history of caring for our national treasures, and about what this book |
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