Thank you Rob. I enjoy the look around.

That poor tower never seems to get the attention promised. I hate to say it, but there may be a willful inertia of delay involved. Complicated by difficult zoning.

Maybe we need to get the Scouts on it. At least repair the shutters.

Might step on some toes, but who cares if the toes are inactive?

Kinda like when we painted Hawk Mtn the wrong color. It said Hawk Mtn on the can but it turned out not to be what some one figured would have been if it could have been. But hey, any paint is better than no paint.

Anything positive at the tower would be better than nothing.

D.

Well, the only sign of "work" was a new aluminum ladder under the lookout-At least I don't remember seeing it before.  We can hope that maybe next year will bring some TLC to the lookout.  The existing paint is even wearing off it has gotten so bad….

I've posted a few photos of the fire damage on my Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/19191522@N06/sets/72157625344283420/.   The views from the lookout tower are of course the same that Rob posted, but I also have some views from a vantage point on the south side of Elk Lake Creek that might be of interest.  It took some serious bushwhacking through the rhodies on the hillside south of the creek to find a place with a decent view, but I got a better perspective of the extent of the fire damage, so it was worth it. 

Thanks for posting the photos, Doug.  From all I've seen so far, it isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but then again, you can't really see the whole Welcome Lakes area.  It was a pretty extensive burn, but it could have been a LOT worse.

Someone on Portlandhikers actually hiked the Dickey Creek trail last weekend (didn't know it was closed-said there was no obvious postings), and it didn't have ANY fire damage on it at all. I'm just curious why that trail is still closed?

Too lazy to take down the signs...