More North Cascades trivia

[Skeezix]

Where is there a log cabin located between the Eldorado Gravel Pit and the Cascade Pass Parking Lot?

[Skeezix]

What's another name for the Hidden Lake Peak Lookout?

[Skeezix]

Name the ranger who figured out that he could propagate sedge seeds by first freezing them. This inveterate experimenter advanced greenhouse propagation of alpine plants for revegetation of alpine meadows as well as experimenting with composting toilets in the subalpine zone. (He also once painted a white stripe on the side of a bear in the Enchanted Valley, Oly NP.)

Edited December 17, 2004 by Skeezix

[Skeezix]

What species of trout live in little Sourdough Lake and Upper Bouck Lake?

[ncascademtns]

What's another name for the Hidden Lake Peak Lookout?

 

Obscured Pond Mountain Shack!

[ncascademtns]

What's another name for the Hidden Lake Peak Lookout?

 

Obscured Pond Mountain Shack!

 

Actually identified as: Lookout US-175 WA-22,

Skagit County Structure - #87001184

[Lowell_Skoog]

Name the ranger who figured out that he could propagate sedge seeds by first freezing them. This inveterate experimenter advanced greenhouse propagation of alpine plants for revegetation of alpine meadows as well as experimenting with composting toilets in the subalpine zone. (He also once painted a white stripe on the side of a bear in the Enchanted Valley, Oly NP.)

 

Bill Lester, right?

 

What's the story with the bear? Some kind of no-pass zone?

[Blake]

What is the highest toilet vault in N Cascades NP?

Boston Basin?

[klenke]

There's one up at the Sahale Arm camp at about 7,600 ft. Is that one higher than Boston Basin?

 

What exactly is a toilet vault anyway?

[Blake]

The toilet at Heaton Camp was once ranked as having the most scenic view in the state (maybe even country).

[geordie]

I'd guess the upper Shuksan toilet is higher..

 

The Cabin is at the hairpin..

[Bill_Simpkins]

I vote for the Shuksan toilet also.

[Skeezix]

Geordie is disqualified from answering any of my questions. Bill Lester was directed to paint the bear by his supervisor. I think the bear was later shot. He was a backcountry ranger in the Enchanted Valley, and also served as the Lake Ozette Ranger before he moved to NOCA. The cabin is just above the road before one passes through the gate below the hairpin. A toilet vault is a fiberglass box with a hole in the top. It sits inside a wooden toilet box and collects waste until it is full, then it is dumped into a compost bin. Sometimes the vault is too full, and then it is difficult to dump (think splatters...), which once led John Dittli to have to shave his mustache off. The Sulphide toilet is probably higher than the Sahale Glacier box. Fact-checkers?

That leaves the other name of the Hidden Lake Lookout?

[ncascademtns]

OK. No one on the other name for Hidden Lake Lookout?

 

I think - "Lois Webster Memorial Shelter".

Am I right?

[ncascademtns]

I threw this one out for Klenke but I think it got lost in the shuffle. Here it is again.

 

2 peaks. Swap one letter between the 2 and spell each of them backwards and you get the same peaks. Just swapped.

????????

[klenke]

Ernie, I saw it initially. I just stopped caring.

[Skeezix]

OK. No one on the other name for Hidden Lake Lookout?

 

I think - "Lois Webster Memorial Shelter".

Am I right?

 

Bingo.

[Billygoat]

Where is there a log cabin located between the Eldorado Gravel Pit and the Cascade Pass Parking Lot?

 

Right on the left, by the next gate.

 

Pretty cool one too.

[ncascademtns]

Ernie, I saw it initially. I just stopped caring.

 

[klenke]

OK. No one on the other name for Hidden Lake Lookout?

 

I think - "Lois Webster Memorial Shelter".

Am I right?

Bingo.

I am reading through "Poets on the Peaks" right now and apparently another whimsical name for this lookout was the "Hidden Lake Hilton" apparently because of its "modest" accomodations. This was mentioned in Chapter 1, page 4. Perhaps the author Suiter will elaborate more later.

[Skeezix]

That's a great book. I devoured it when my wife gave it to me. May be time for a first re-read.

[hopalong]

Crazy Kids and their Peyote

[Skeezix]

No, it's poetry, not peyote.

[klenke]

I *think* it said in the beginning of the book that Gary Snyder did peyote. So the poetry and the peyote went hand-in-hand with him. Snyder had a strong interest in Native American culture.

The book has been pretty good so far. A lot of good North Cascades history (place names and characters).

[Skeezix]

Snyder was just in Bellingham recently for a reading. I missed him, but received an autographed copy of his new book for Christmas. He's a nice fellow. I e-mailed him a question about one of his poems when I was teaching a unit on Poets of the North Cascades to my high school students. Snyder answered the question, then recommended me to Philip Whalen's recently published (or re-published?) poetry. One thing I really like about Snyder was that he wasn't just an intellectual ...rather he liked hard physical work ...trail maintenance and such. He was described as quite capable in that way. I like Snyder's writing about being in the outdoors. The Cold Mountain-style descriptive stuff. William Stafford is another poet that wrote about the North Cascades. He wrote a series of poems for the Forest Service on commission: The Methow River poems. They're level 3 stuff: obtuse and provocative. Kinda scary...