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
    • 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
OKANOGAN COUNTY

SLATE PEAK

Okanogan National Forest
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1924:   A gable-roof cabin with a cupola was constructed.
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​September 3, 1931: “Ed Allen and Raymond Johnson left Tuesday for the mountains where they will complete the work on the lookout house at Slate Peak.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)

September 1931:  "Slate Peak, a lookout-fireman's point on the Chelan near Harts Pass, was occupied for the first time this year.  We immediately took advantage of this occupancy and strung some eight miles of emergency wire to connect with this point.  A couple weeks ago, said lookout reported a fire on Upper Slate Creek; it probably would have got to some size before our nearest lookout might have picked it up.  As it was we has a man to it in a short time -- result: a class A fire.
     Thanks, Chelan -- hope we may return the help some day.   L.B. Pagter"  (Six Twenty-Six)

August 19, 1932: “A snowdrift four feet in depth has so far withstood the attack of the summer sun at Slate peak lookout at the head of the west fork of the Pasayten river, according to Roy Paul, who is stationed at that point.
      Paul arrived in Winthrop about 1 o'clock Wednesday night for dental work, and returned to the lookout Thursday.
      During his stay at the station this summer Paul has experienced almost every variety of weather he says. The early months brought cold nights and bleak, threatening days. High temperatures arrived about a week ago,and he reports the remaining snow is melting quite rapidly. Two weeks ago a snowstorm swept the high country, and the station perched on the 7438 foot summit was plunged into winter.
      A few fires, all in the Canadian forest were sighted from Slate peak. To date none have occurred in the portion of the Chelan and Mt. Baker forests surrounding the peak.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)


August 27, 1932: “Ray Paul, lookout stationed on Slate peak in the northern part of the Chelan National forest, arrived home from a long trip yesterday just in time to be an unwilling host to a stray lightning bolt, which came in, apparently, to seek shelter from the storm.
      Shattering the wire cage designed to protect the new lookout stations from such visitations, the bolt damaged the roof, played havoc with the telephone and set Paul's bed afire. The forester extinguished the blaze with a bucket of water but was unable to rescue a $15 Pendleton blanket.
      The Slate peak station is of a type is nearly lightning proof as can be obtained, according to H. F. Brundage, assistant regional forester in charge of forest protection. The walls are almost entirely of glass, surrounded by a wire cage designed to intercept lightning.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)


September 18, 1934: “Al Anderson, lookout at Slate peak, was packed down Tuesday. He reports a foot of snow there.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
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Activated:  March 30, 1942;  Deactivated:  September 19, 1942.    Seattle Filter Center.

1954:   A 14 x 14 L-4 cab was moved to the peak from Leecher Mountain.

1956:   A new 41-foot treated timber tower with an L-4 cab was erected.
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 1956:   The U.S. Air Force took control of @119 acres on the top of the peak.  The lookout cabin was removed along with approximately 40 feet of the mountain top, leaving a level area for the construction of an unmanned Gap Filler radar site.

1960:   The Annex was constructed and was subordinate to the Colville Air Force Station.

January 4, 1961:   The radar annex was declared excess inventory.

October 23, 1961:   A bid was accepted for the salvage of the improvements, buildings, underground fuel storage tanks and the radar tower.

August 29, 1963:   "Mr. and Mrs. Jon Shepard have left Slate Peak to attend WSU at Pullman.  He has served as lookout this summer.  Al Anderson, Winthrop, will man the Slate Peak L.O. the balance of the fire season."   (Quad City Herald)
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