Ep. 985: Fire Lookout Hiking Adventures - Revisited - Amber Casali
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Fire lookout towers: Amber Casali shares everything you didn't know about these iconic structures – insights from a Pacific Northwest adventurer who has summited Mount Adams, Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, section-hiked Washington's PCT, and trained in mountaineering and wilderness first aid.
Originally aired May 7, 2018
On today's show, Amber Casali joins Curt to fill us in on everything we didn't realize we did not 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 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:25.2 | Happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S. |
| 0:27.3 | I imagine a lot of y'all are not listening today on Thanksgiving, a lot of travel. |
| 0:32.4 | We always see a little dip around the holidays and listenership. |
| 0:35.6 | But if you are, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:37.4 | Today's episode is kind of fun. It's a throwback to one I... around the holidays and listenership. But if you are, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:39.7 | Today's episode is kind of fun. |
| 0:45.8 | It's a throwback to one I saw in our archives talking about fire lookout towers. |
| 0:46.9 | You might have seen these. |
| 0:49.5 | I know I have a lot of them where I live. |
| 0:53.4 | Here in Florida, it's a very flat state, so it makes a lot of sense to have a really tall tower and you can see pretty dang far. But there's tons of them, and they're out of use now, so you're not supposed to climb them, but recently some friends and I climbed one that was out in the woods, it was awesome. Yeah, it's a pretty cool experience, and they're incredibly tall, hundreds of feet tall, at least where I am. They're out of commission, though. You know, the technology has advanced, but they're still really cool. And I saw this and thought, you know, that'd be a really cool one to talk about. Amber here is from Seattle, Pacific Northwest. They also have fire lookout towers, kind of a different setup. And there are some that you can go visit and stay in. It's really, really amazing. |
| 1:30.3 | And you may have seen famous pictures of them, |
| 1:33.0 | but I thought this would be a really cool episode to throw it back to. |
| 1:37.1 | Kurt is the host of this episode, originally from 2018. |
| 1:38.7 | So let's go ahead and dive in. Okay. Today is a unique show. |
| 1:51.8 | 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 years and years ago. |
| 1:59.8 | Or if you've seen some of the old bridges |
| 2:01.9 | on the old two-lane roads that just kind of speak about our past and our history and where we |
| 2:07.1 | came from. Today, we're talking about some old structures that served a very unique and meaningful |
| 2:13.3 | purpose in our natural heritage in the United States, we're talking about fire lookouts, |
| 2:19.5 | fire lookouts with Amber Casali. And Amber has written the book on fire lookouts, hiking |
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