KING COUNTY
PINNACLE PEAK
State Department of Forestry
20N-7E-32
20N-7E-32
1929: A tower was erected. (22nd Annual Report of the Washington Forest Fire Association)
1950: A 20-foot timber tower with a 14'x14' cab was erected to replace the early structure. (Biennial Report of the Forestry Division)
September 12, 1957: "Bernadine (Bunny) Shantz, Walla Walla College student from San Bernardino, Calif., was subject of a feature article in a Seattle newspaper Sunday, dealing with her summertime occupation as a forest fire lookout.
Miss Shantz is on Pinnacle Peak, in the Cascades near Enumclaw. It is her second season as a lookout, one of her WWC teachers said. She keeps a pistol for protection in her tower, and soda pop bottles line the tower stairs at night to give her a warning of trouble.
'She's only five feet tall,' her teacher added. A senior majoring in English, Miss Shantz is 26 years old." (Walla Walla Union Bulletin)
1966: Removed
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1937 (HJO)
AT THE HIGHEST POINT OF PINNACLE PEAK, THE 1,807-FOOT HILL AT
THE SE CORNER SEC. 36, T. 20, R. 6, WHICH IS 6 MILES S BY E FROM
ENUMCLAW. IT WAS FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY PINNACLE PEAK LOOKOUT
TOWER, THE LEGS OF WHICH WERE SET IN CONCRETE. STATION IS NEAR
THE CENTER OF QUADRANGLE FORMED BY THESE LEG FOUNDATIONS AND THE
REFERENCE MARK IS IN THE CONCRETE FOUNDATION FOR ONE LEG.
STATION MARK IS A DISK SET IN A BOULDER. TOWER ABOUT 30 FEET
HIGH (THE LOOKOUT TOWER HAS BEEN CUT DOWN) WAS BUILT OF POLES
CUT ON THE SITE TO SEE OUT OVER TREES.
A ROAD RUNS S ALONG THE TOWNSHIP LINE TO THIS HILL, THEN TURNS
E. FROM THIS TURN A GOOD TRAIL LEADS UP THE HILL. A 1/2 HOURS
PACK.