FOREST LOOKOUTS
  • WASHINGTON
  • ASOTIN COUNTY
    • Big Butte
    • Saddle Butte
    • Smoothing Iron
  • CHELAN COUNTY
    • Alpine
    • Baldy Mountain
    • Basalt Mountain
    • Beehive Mountain
    • Big Hill
    • Boulder Butte
    • Boundary Butte
    • Byrd Point
    • Carne Mountain
    • Chelan
    • Chelan Butte
    • Chumstick Mountain
    • Cougar Mountain
    • Dirty Face Ridge
    • Domke Mountain
    • Duncan Hill
    • Estes Butte
    • French Ridge
    • Goman Peak
    • Goode Ridge
    • Harriets Peak
    • Horton Butte
    • Icicle Ridge
    • Jack Ridge
    • Junction Ridge
    • Junior Point
    • Keystone Point
    • Klone Peak
    • Lorraine
    • McCue Ridge
    • McGregor Mountain
    • Mission Peak
    • Mount David
    • Mount Stuart
    • Nelson Butte
    • Poe Mountain
    • Pyramid Mountain
    • Rock Mountain
    • Slide Ridge
    • Soda Springs
    • Steliko Point
    • Stiletto Ridge
    • Stormy Mountain
    • Sugarloaf Peak
    • Three Brothers
    • Tiptop
    • Tumwater Mountain
    • Tyee Mountain
    • Vie Mountain
  • CLALLAM COUNTY
    • Baada Point
    • Blue Mountain
    • Blyn
    • Bogachiel Peak
    • Burma Point
    • Burnt Mountain
    • Crow's Nest
    • Dodger Point
    • Ellis
    • Foothills
    • Gunderson Mountain
    • Hurricane Ridge
    • Hyas Mountain
    • Ice Cream Cone Mountain
    • Kloshe Nanitch
    • Mt Pleasant
    • Mt Townsend
    • Mt Zion
    • Muller Mountain
    • Neah Bay (AWS)
    • Ned Hill
    • North Point
    • Ozette Lake (AWS)
    • Pyramid Mountain (AWS)
    • Pysht
    • Sekiu Mountain
    • Solduc Mountain
    • Sooes Mountain
    • Striped Peak
    • Twin
  • CLARK COUNTY
    • Green Knob
    • Larch Mountain
  • COLUMBIA COUNTY
    • Griffin Peak
    • Jumpoff joe
    • Oregon Butte
    • Paradise Ridge
    • Table Rock
    • Thorne Point
  • COWLITZ COUNTY
    • Abernathy Mountain
    • Devils Burn
    • Elk Mountain
    • Elk Rock
    • Gilbert, Ted
    • Lam Mountain
    • Meridian Mountain
    • Powderhorn
    • Signal Peak
    • Wolf Point
  • DOUGLAS COUNTY
    • Badger Mountain
  • FERRY COUNTY
    • Barnaby Butte
    • Bisbee Mountain
    • Bodie Mountain
    • Cody Butte
    • Columbia Mountain
    • Copper Butte
    • Franson Peak
    • Gold Mountain
    • Graves Mountain
    • Grizzly Mountain
    • Jackknife Mountain
    • Johnny George
    • Keller Butte
    • Little Vulcan Mountain
    • Lynx Creek
    • Marble Mountain
    • Moon Mountain
    • Quartz Mountain
    • Scalawag Ridge
    • Sheep Mountain
    • South Huckleberry
    • Stahley Peak
    • Taylor Ridge
    • Thirteenmile
    • Togo Mountain
    • Twin Sisters
    • Vulcan Mountain
    • Wapaloosie Mountain
    • White Mountain
    • Whitestone Ridge
  • GARFIELD COUNTY
    • Clearwater
    • Diamond Peak
  • GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY
    • Anderson Butte
    • Artic
    • Brittain
    • Burnt Hill
    • Byles
    • Chester Ridge
    • Colonel Bob
    • Cook Creek Tree
    • Deep Creek
    • Drake (Reed Hill)
    • Gobbler Knob
    • Higley Peak
    • Hobi Peak
    • Humptulips Ridge
    • Kelly
    • Lem
    • Lone Mountain
    • Macafee Hill
    • Minot Peak
    • Mobray
    • Moclips
    • Point Grenville
    • Prices Peak
    • Salmon River
    • Twin Peak
    • Vesta
    • Weatherwax
  • JEFFERSON COUNTY
    • Big Quilcene
    • Clearwater
    • Elk Creek
    • Finley Peak
    • Geodetic Hill
    • Hoh (Oil City)
    • Kloockman Rock
    • Ludden Peak
    • Mount Constance
    • Mount Jupiter
    • Mount Octopus
    • Mount Walker
    • Owl Mountain
    • Quilcene Ranger Station
    • Shine
    • Skidder Hill
    • Twin Lakes
    • Webb Mountain (Lower)
    • Webb Mountain (Upper)
  • KING COUNTY
    • Bare Mountain
    • Beckler Peak
    • Camp Waskowitz
    • Canyon
    • Cascade
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Cedar Point
    • Christoff
    • Cleveland Mountain
    • Colquhoun Mountain
    • Goat Mountain
    • Granite Mountain
    • Grass Mountain
    • Humphrey Mountain
    • Kelly Butte
    • Little Mountain
    • Maloney Ridge
    • McClellan Butte
    • McDonald
    • Meadow Mountain
    • Mount Sawyer
    • Mount Si
    • Nordrum Mountain
    • Pinnacle Peak
    • Platts
    • Proffitts Point
    • Pyramid Peak
    • Rattlesnake Ridge
    • Snoqualmie
    • Snowshoe Butte
    • Stampede Pass
    • Surprise Mountain
    • Tiger Mountain
    • Windy Mountain
  • KITSAP COUNTY
    • Bangor
    • Gold Mountain
    • Green Mountain
    • Kitsap
  • KITTITAS COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Big Creek
    • Davis Mountain
    • Devil's Slide
    • Easton Ridge
    • Elbow Peak
    • Fish Lake
    • Frost Mountain
    • Goat Peak
    • Jolly Mountain
    • Koppen Mountain
    • Lion Rock
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Manastash Ridge
    • Martin
    • Mount Lillian
    • Naneum Point
    • North Ridge
    • Peoh Point
    • Polallie Mountain
    • Quartz Mountain
    • Red Mountain
    • Red Top Mountain
    • Roaring Ridge
    • Stafford Creek
    • Taneum Point
    • Teanaway Butte
    • Thorp Mountain
  • KLICKITAT COUNTY
    • Dymond Gap
    • Grayback Mountain
    • Lorena Butte
    • Meadow Butte
    • Monte Cristo
    • Nestor Peak
    • Simcoe Butte
    • Sopelia
    • Twin Buttes (Lorena)
  • LEWIS COUNTY
    • Baw Faw Peak
    • Burley Mountain
    • Cascade Creek
    • Cispus Mountain
    • Clam Mountain
    • Coyote Mountain
    • Doty
    • Dry Creek
    • Goat Ridge
    • Hamilton Butte
    • Hawkeye
    • High Rock
    • Huckleberry Mountain2
    • Hunters Cabin
    • Kiona Peak
    • Kosmos Hill
    • Ladd Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Point
    • Lost Lake
    • Lucas Creek
    • Nannie Peak
    • National
    • Newaukum
    • Pleasant Valley
    • Pompey Peak
    • Purcell Mountain
    • Rockies (Little)
    • South Point
    • Stahl Peak
    • Tatoosh Ridge
    • Tongue Mountain
    • Tower Rock
    • Tumac
    • Twin Sisters
    • Vanson Peak
    • Watch Mountain
    • West Fork Tilton
    • Windy Knob
  • MASON COUNTY
    • Dayton Peak
    • Dennie Ahl
    • Dow Mountain
    • Dusk Peak
    • Grisdale Hill
    • Jefferson Ridge
    • Lightning Peak
    • Mason Lake
    • Mount Lincoln
    • Simpson
    • South Mountain
    • Tahuya
  • OKANOGAN COUNTY
    • Aeneas Mountain
    • Armstrong Mountain
    • Bailey Mountain
    • Big Hill
    • Billy Goat Peak
    • Black Ridge
    • Blue Goat Mountain
    • Bridge Creek
    • Buck Mountain
    • Buckhorn Mountain
    • Bunker Hill
    • Burch Mountain
    • Buttermilk Butte
    • Chiliwist Butte
    • Cooper Mountain
    • Cornell Butte
    • Corral Butte
    • Diamond Point
    • Doe Mountain
    • Dollar Watch Mountain
    • Driveway Butte
    • Dugout Mountain
    • Fir Mountain
    • First Butte
    • Funk Mountain
    • Gardner Mountain
    • Goat Mountain
    • Goat Peak
    • Gold Ridge
    • Granite Mountain
    • Jackass Butte
    • Juniper Point
    • Knowlton Knob
    • Leecher Mountain
    • Lincoln Butte
    • Little Buck Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • McClure Mountain
    • Mebee Pass
    • Midnight Mountain
    • Milton Mountain
    • Monument 83
    • Moses Mountain
    • Mount Annie
    • Mount Bonaparte
    • Mount Hull
    • Muckamuck Mountain
    • North Creek Butte
    • North Twenty-mile
    • Okanogan Post Office
    • Old Baldy
    • Omak Mountain
    • Oval Peak
    • Pearygin Peak
    • Point Defiance
    • Remmels peak
    • Robinson Pass
    • Setting sun
    • Skull & Crossbones
    • Slate Peak
    • South Creek Butte
    • Strawberry Mountain
    • Strawberry Mountain
    • Sweetgrass Butte
    • Thrapp Mountain
    • Tiffany Peak
    • Tunk Mountain
    • War Creek Ridge
    • Washington Butte
    • Whitmore Mountain
    • Windy Peak
    • Winthrop
  • PACIFIC COUNTY
    • Blaney Mountain
    • Burt
    • Cowan Point
    • Hull Creek
    • K O Point
    • Packsack Mountain
    • Squally Jim
    • Trap Creek
  • PEND OREILLE COUNTY
    • Aladdin Mountain
    • Baldy (Current)
    • Bead Lake Mountain
    • Boundary Mountain
    • Boyer Mountain
    • Cee Cee Ah
    • Cook Mountain..
    • Crowell Ridge
    • Diamond Peak
    • Diamond Peak Patrol
    • Dry Canyon
    • Fourth of July
    • Galena Point
    • Gibraltar Rock
    • Gleason Mountain
    • Goose Creek Point
    • Granite Peak
    • Grassy Top
    • Grouse Knob
    • Gypsy Peak
    • Hall Mountain
    • Hanks
    • Hanlon Mountain
    • Harvey Creek
    • High Rock
    • Huckleberry Mountain..
    • Indian Mountain
    • Jackson Mountain
    • Kalispell Rock
    • Kings Mountain
    • LeClerc Creek AKA ?
    • Leola Peak
    • Linton Mountain
    • Little Blue Grouse
    • Little Roundtop
    • Mill Creek Point
    • Molybdenite Mountain
    • Monumental Mountain
    • Moon Hill
    • No Name Peak
    • North Baldy Mountain
    • Ojibway
    • Orwig Hump
    • Pass Creek Ridge
    • Pelke Divide
    • Prouty Peak
    • Roundtop Mountain
    • Russian Ridge
    • Saddle Mountain
    • Salmo Mountain
    • Sand Creek
    • Scrabbler Mountain
    • Shedroof
    • Skookum Peak
    • Slate Creek
    • Slumber Mountain
    • Snyder Hill
    • South Baldy Mountain
    • South Fork Mountain
    • Squaw Valley
    • Sullivan Mountain
    • Thomas Mountain.
    • Thunder Mountain
    • Tillicum Peak
    • Timber Mountain
    • Winchester Peak
    • Yokum Lake
  • PIERCE COUNTY
    • Anvil Rock
    • Bearhead Mountain
    • Carbon Ridge
    • Clear West Peak
    • Colonade
    • Crystal Lake
    • Crystal Mountain
    • Electron
    • Garrison Hill
    • Glacierview
    • Gobblers Knob
    • Goodman Hill
    • McGuire Creek
    • Mount Beljica
    • Mount Fremont
    • Mutton Mountain
    • Nisqually
    • Noble Knob
    • Norse Peak
    • O'Farrell (South Prairie)
    • Ohop
    • Old Desolate
    • Pack Forest
    • Purdy
    • Puyallup Ridge
    • Saint Paul
    • Shriner Peak
    • Sunset Park
    • Suntop Mountain
    • Tolmie Peak
    • Windy Knoll
  • SAN JUAN COUNTY
    • Mount Constitution
    • Little Summit
  • SKAGIT COUNTY
    • Bacon Point
    • Devils Mountain
    • Dock Butte
    • Finney Point
    • Frailey Mountain
    • Gee Point
    • Haystack Mountain
    • Hidden Lake
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Little Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • McMurray
    • Mount Higgins
    • Mount Josephine
    • North Mountain
    • Rinker Point
    • Samish
    • Sauk Mountain
    • Texas Pond
    • Wickersham
  • SKAMANIA COUNTY
    • Aldrich Butte
    • Badger Peak
    • Beacon Rock
    • Big Huckleberry
    • Breezy Point
    • Bunker Hill
    • Burnt Peak
    • Clear Creek
    • Coldwater Peak
    • Council Bluff
    • Dark Cabin
    • Dog Mountain
    • Flattop
    • Flattop (West)
    • French Butte
    • Grassy Knoll
    • Gumboot
    • Horseshoe Ridge
    • House Rock
    • Huffman Peak
    • Little Baldy
    • Little Huckleberry
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Madcat Meadow
    • McCoy Peak
    • Mount Mitchell
    • Mount Saint Helens
    • Mowich Butte
    • Observation Peak
    • Point 3670
    • Red Mountain
    • Silver Star Mountain
    • Siouxon Peak
    • Sleeping Beauty
    • Smith Creek Butte
    • Spencer Butte
    • Steamboat Mountain
    • Strawberry Mountain
    • Summit Guard Station
    • Summit Prairie
    • Sunrise Peak
    • Switchback Mountain
    • Three Corner Rock
    • Twin Butte
  • SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    • Bannock Mountain
    • Barlow Pass
    • Basin
    • Benchmark Mountain
    • Blackjack Ridge
    • Blue Mountain
    • Circle Peak
    • Dan Creek Guard Station
    • Darrington Ranger Station
    • Evergreen Mountain
    • French Point
    • Galena Mountain
    • Glacier Ridge
    • Gold Hill
    • Green Mountain
    • Haystack Mountain
    • Heybrook
    • High Rocks
    • Johnson Mountain
    • Jumbo Mountain
    • Kodak Peak
    • Miners Ridge
    • Mount Pilchuck
    • Mount Pugh
    • North Fork Bench
    • Red Mountain (Ridge)
    • Sauk Guard Station
    • Stillaguamish
    • Sulphur Mountain
    • Three Fingers
    • Whitechuck Bench
    • Whitechuck Mountain
  • SPOKANE COUNTY
    • Lookout Mountain (Point)
    • Mica Peak
    • Mount Spokane
    • Quartz Mountain
    • Turnbull
  • STEVENS COUNTY
    • Abercrombie Mountain
    • Addy Mountain
    • Blue Grouse Mountain
    • Calispel Peak
    • Chewelah Peak
    • Churchill Mountain
    • Cliff Ridge
    • Colbath Mountain
    • Dunn Mountain
    • Eagle Mountain
    • Electric Point
    • First Thought Mountain
    • Flagstaff
    • Frisco Mountain (Peak)
    • Goddards Creek
    • Gold Mountain
    • Green Mountain.
    • Johnson Peak
    • Leadpoint Mountain
    • Miller Mountain
    • Mineral Mountain
    • Monumental Mountain
    • Nelson Peak
    • Old Dominion
    • Onion Mountain
    • Rogers Mountain
    • Scoop Mountain
    • Sherwood Mountain
    • Spirit Point
    • Spokane Mountain
    • Stranger Mountain
    • Swede Pass
    • Tower Mountain
    • Wellpinit Mountain
  • THURSTON COUNTY
    • Capitol Peak
    • Crawford Mountain
    • Deschutes Tower
    • Miller Hill
    • Porcupine Ridge
    • Rainier Tower
    • Rock Candy Mountain
  • WAHKIAKUM COUNTY
    • Incline Mountain
  • WHATCOM COUNTY
    • Anderson Butte
    • Baker Lake (Point)
    • Barometer Mountain
    • Black Rock
    • Blue Canyon
    • Cady Point
    • Church Mountain
    • Copper Mountain
    • Crater Mountain
    • Deming
    • Desolation Peak
    • Devils Dome
    • Dillard Point
    • Easy Ridge
    • Entwhistle
    • Excelsior Point
    • Galbraith
    • Goat Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Nooksack
    • Park Butte
    • Roland Point
    • Sourdough Mountain
    • South Twin
    • Sulphur Butte
    • Whatcom Peak
    • Winchester Peak
  • YAKIMA COUNTY
    • American Ridge
    • Bear Creek Mountain
    • Blue Slide
    • Cleman Mountain
    • Clover Springs
    • Darland Mountain
    • Edgar Rock
    • Goat Butte
    • Hagerty Butte
    • Jennies Butte
    • Jumpoff
    • Lakeview Mountain
    • Little Bald Mountain
    • McKays Butte
    • Midway
    • Miners Ridge
    • Mount Adams
    • Mount Aix
    • Panther Creek
    • Pine Mountain
    • Ravens Roost
    • Round Mountain
    • Satus Peak
    • Sedge Ridge
    • Signal Peak
    • Timberwolf Mountain
  • General & Misc., Washington
  • INDEX
CHELAN COUNTY

DIRTY FACE RIDGE

Wenatchee National Forest
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1914:  Site first developed as a heliograph lookout.  (See: Tumwater Mountain entry for March 20, 1914)

June 22, 1915:   "Under supervision of A.H. Sylvester, supervisor of the Wenatchee national forest reserve, lookout stations are being erected on four mountains in Chelan county for the purpose of detecting and subduing forest fires.  One peak to be utilized is Dirtyface, near Lake Wenatchee.  During the summer season one man will be on constant guard at each of the four places, one of which will be the central station.  Each man will be equipped with a heliograph and compass, in order to get bearings and signal to the central station, which will have a phone and can send assistance at once."   (The Semi-Weekly Spokesman-Review)

July 2, 1915:   "A line will be built to the lookout station on the summit of Dirty Face mountain on Lake Wenatchee."   (The Leavenworth Echo)

July 16, 1915:  A force of men are employed in building a telephone line to the top of Dirty Face mountain near Wenatchee lake where a lookout station will be maintained.  The line is expected to be completed next week."  (The Leavenworth Echo)

July 30, 1915:  "The Forestry Department has several crews of men at work in this vicinity.  A new trail is being built up the Little Wenatchee to Soda Springs and one up Dirty Face mountain where a lookout station has been located."  (The Leavenworth Echo)
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​September 28, 1923: “Miss Gladys West came in Tuesday from Dirtyface lookout where she had been stationed the past two weeks. Miss West has acted as relief lookout the past season and has been in charge of most of the stations in this community at different times."   (The Leavenworth Echo)
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June 20, 1924: “Forest Supervisor A.H. Sylvester has virtually completed the placing of summer employees in the Wenatchee National Forest.”   "Lake Wenatchee Ranger District – Lawrence Cunningham is lookout on Dirtyface Peak.”   (The Leavenworth Echo)

​June 18, 1926: “Harold Nutting, who arrived home Saturday from W.S.C., will be employed in the forest service this summer, probably as lookout on Dirty Face mountain.” (The Leavenworth Echo)

​November 1929:
  "The lightning connectors were not on Dirty Face Lookout until the next day after the storm, which occurred early in the season.  You can draw your own conclusions as to where the lightning started in, from Ranger Kellicut's description as follows:
     The flag on the 20 foot flag pole about 30 feet from the building was torn to ribbons.  The small copper emergency wire, used in lieu of a flag rope, was uninjured down to where it was wrapped around the flag pole some 4 feet from the ground.  Here it was slightly burned and the pole badly shattered for about two feet up and down; one of the splinters from the pole was found sticking into the roof of the lookout house.
     From the base of the flag pole, the lightning traveled some 30 feet through the ground under two piles of rock about 20 feet apart, scattering the rocks in all directions and making several holes of fused soil.
     Then it jumped about ten feet to a pile of rocks over one of the guy cable anchors, scattered the rocks and traveled up the cable to within about a foot of the tower post to which it was fastened.  From here it jumped up through the hip of the roof to the galvanized hip shingles, tearing two of them loose.
     At the same time, lightning came up the guy cable at the opposite corner of the building, tore off some of the hip shingles and in addition scattered the lookout's store of dried provisions, beans, cereals, etc., in pasteboard containers on a shelf at the corner, all over the room.  This was the principal thing objected to by the lookout who was out of the building at the time.  The W.B.G. fuse and Vac-M Arrester were in tack but the coil and some of the connections on the howler signal set in the tower were badly burned.
     Incidentally, he says that in nearly every case, where iron tree pins had been used on the telephone line, near the lookout, the tree insulator was broken.  C.M. Allen"  (Six Twenty-Six)

​June 23, 1933:
  Lake Wenatchee Ranger District:  Pat Douglas, Dirtyface Peak lookout.   (The Leavenworth Echo)

May 29, 1934: “Fearing a storm, Ranger Axel Lindh of Lake Wenatchee rushed a man to the look-out station on Dirtyface peak at 6 p.m. Yesterday. The peak normally would not be occupied until next month."   (The Wenatchee Daily World)

June 22, 1934:
“Bud Ault is lookout on Dirty Face peak. Mrs. Ault will join him there this week. ” (The Wenatchee Daily World)

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August 19, 1934:   Panorama photos taken.

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July 17, 1935: “Mrs. Bud Ault is down from Dirtyface Lookout for a few days visit. Mr. Ault is employed as lookout and Mrs. Ault stays up on the peak with her husband, making several trips down during the summer, usually walking down alone.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)

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