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Eric Willhite
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PostSat Oct 15, 2016 3:49 pm 
I'm really digging these trip reports Eric! Its cool to read about how all of these foothill high points have been used as Lookouts/AWS watch sites (I may have to go visit these this winter). Please keep the TRs coming.

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PostSat Oct 15, 2016 3:55 pm 
Fabulous, intriguing and inspiring research and detective work, Eric! p.s. On your Constance Lookout (aka C-141 Peak) page, the panoramic photos are a fabulous find, but it appears their legends "Looking North" and "Looking East" are interchanged? Also, the 1950 map is unknown to me; is that a Metsker map?

"of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt" - John Muir "the wild is not the opposite of cultivated. It is the opposite of the captivated” - Vandana Shiva
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PostSun Oct 16, 2016 7:51 pm 
re Constance Lookout - C-141 Peak, please check again, Eric? The upper photo is looking west (or WNW), not NE as you typed above, nor East as labelled. Its view is to the left or CCW from the lower photo, labelled North. East isn't left of North, west is. Was this photo in a file labelled "lookout panos" or is there any other confirmation C-141 Peak was used by as a lookout site? It's an intriguing hypothesis, but I've found many errors in backcountry trail routes and shelter locations on Metsker maps, so would advise against relying on that alone. Apologies for posting this in the wrong thread!

"of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt" - John Muir "the wild is not the opposite of cultivated. It is the opposite of the captivated” - Vandana Shiva
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PostTue Oct 25, 2016 1:56 pm 
Eric, at NWhiker Ranger Bruce's suggestion, I phoned Linda Tudor of Brinnon. She once lived in the cabin you tentatively identified as a possible Corringenda Butte Lookout site. The roadbed to the butte was a 1920s-era logging railroad spur off the main logging railroad bed which is now Mt. Jupiter Road. The 1930s maps show this rail line had already been removed and depict it as a roadbed. T. B. Balch owned this parcel because it includes a clear perennial spring. A concrete retaining dam and pipeline was added to supply spring water to the Balch home and later subdivision below on Hood Canal. This water source is maintained and remains in use today. Balch built no buildings on the parcel. Linda Tudor and her former husband bulldozed the driveway (visible on the 1994 aerial) from the road (former railroad bed) to the cabin, and added the deck and solar power panels on the two steel poles you photographed on the corners of the cabin. In about 1993, they sold the property to Clarence Land, who owned the adjacent parcel to the east. He abandoned the cabin. Linda says the lookout was not at the cabin. The lookout was on the highest point of the butte (1585' on the current USGS Brinnon topo, 1720' on the 1936 USGS Point Misery topo) to the west, in the logged parcel owned by Green Crow. She recalls the leveled site of the lookout building on the butte's summit, and an adjacent shallow pit containing lots of debris from it. No concrete foundation remained (or she suggests maybe ever existed, if it was a temporary structure built on skids). Of the cabin on the knob to the east of the butte, Linda confirms your first working theory "1) This was a homestead and that is all it ever was, no AWS involved."

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