Today was a beautiful day that couldn't pass without getting out. We chose to knock off another nearby former fire lookout location. This former lookout location was built by Fred Fraser in the 40s and used for a decade. A man we met on the summit knew the area very well. He said that as a child in the 50s he used to collect bulbs that the army had used and discarded in a aircraft detection lookout at this site.
Our day was glorious. Temperatures were cold but where there was sunshine there was warmth. The trails were all frozen and therefore not muddy. Finding the summit loop trail was easy through this second growth forest. The summit is open and sunny. Many names and undecipherable scribbles are carved into the bare rock on top. We found one inscription that reads "LOOKOUT" but nothing else around it is legible.
We looped back to our car (at the SE trail head on the corner of 181st Ave SE) by walking SSE on established trails into a marshy area which adjoins Spring Lake. Recent beaver activity was evident along it's edges.
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