Jack Kerouac fans: the fire lookout position at Desolation Peak is open (GS-4)

[DemoTex]

GS-4 Fire Lookout for Desolation Peak in North Cascades National Park
There is currently an announcement on USAJOBS for a GS-4 Fire Lookout for Desolation Peak in North Cascades National Park. This lookout is a remote one, travel by boat across Ross Lake, then a 6 mile strenuous hike up to the lookout. The only water available is what you can melt down from the last winter's snow.

Search for Desolation Peak at the USAJOBS Website - http://www.usajobs.gov/



Desolation Peak Lookout


"Hozomeen, Hozomeen, most beautiful mountain I ever seen." J. Kerouac

[leftyclimber]

1. Oh, don't tempt me.

I'm supposed to be collecting dissertation data on an east coast National Forest this summer. I'd much rather be in North Cascades watching for fires.....

Where's the "wistful sigh" smiley?

[arcadian]

2. At least you have a propane stove.

Wonder how you get resupplied.

[NightWatcher]

3. would absolutely LOVE to have that job

http://jobsearch.usajobs.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=79038235&AVSDM=2009%2D02%2D02+00%3A03%3A01&Logo=0&sort=rv&vw=d&brd=3876&ss=0&customapplicant=15513,15514,15515,15669,15523,15512,15516,45575&q=north+cascades

[DemoTex]

6. I've applied for a position at about nine lookouts in Idaho and Oregon.

Drive-up lookouts. E-Z on the legs.

[TahitiNut]

4. Can I get internet access there?

:evilgrin:

[Gabi Hayes]

5. Check this beautiful book:

POETS ON THE PEAKS is author John Suiter's book about poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Kerouac during their fire-lookout summers in the North Cascades during the 1950s. Based on scores of previously unpublished letters and journals, plus recent interviews with Snyder and Whalen and many of their friends, Poets on the Peaks creates a group portrait of Kerouac, Snyder, and Whalen that transcends the tired urban cliches of "Beat" life.

Poets on the Peaks is about the development of a community of poets, including the famous Six Gallery reading of October 1955, and contains unexpected cameos by fellow poets and mountain-climbers Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Rexroth, Philip Lamantia, and Michael McClure.

http://www.poetsonthepeaks.com/index.php