But the USFS supplied me with a 3.7 kW generator and fuel.

I bet it is somewhat mystical taking a whiz while staring out at all the glories of the universe.

Well, the outhouse is 60 yards away. A very long 60 yards, at times.

That's a little farther than I expected you to say.

I'd be tempted to find other options at times when nature is calling and it's an emergency call!

You don’t want to descend those steps at midnight, with wolves howling and mountain lions screaming, in a raging lightning storm, to make that 60-yard dash!

No such thing as too many bungee cords.

I'm going to open this up on the computer so I can check out all the details on the big screen. (I'm on my tablet right now, which is what I use for most of my internet activity.)

I have really enjoyed learning about the fire lookout tower and seeing your photos of the beautiful views from up there. Thankd for sharing all of this with us.

Do you have AC?

I have seldom seen any lookout above 80-degrees F. But the off-grid power accomodations are far short of what is needed to run AC. I have used a little low current draw DC fan in the past, and I might find one for next season.

High elevation fire lookouts in the Pacific Northwest (Idaho in particular) have very short seasons because of snow. I couldn't get in until June 30 because the roads were blocked with snow drifts (in 2022 it was July 17). And the snow can fly in early September in the high country (in 2020 the first significant snow on my 10,000 foot peak was August 31!).

Author/poet Jack Kerouac was famously a fire lookout at Desolation Peak in the Northern Cascades of Washington in 1956. The total length of his fire season was only 63 days. I'm now 75 years old, so two months in the wilderness is plenty enough for me!

got everything you need to perform your job.

A big thank you for your lessons about lookout towers. Your "charts" are very informative.

What might it be?

Shooting with a Fujifilm GFX-100S in "SHOOT WITHOUT LENS" manual mode.