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Fire Lookout Friday

Where in the Wild is Chris?

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 27

Fire Lookout Friday is a weekly podcast about Washington's historic fire lookouts—their stories, their history, and the ridiculous things that happen when you visit all of them. And then staff one. Hosted by Chris, fire lookout, photographer, and storyteller.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Places & Travel
27/10/2026
#70
🇨🇦 Canada - Places & Travel
16/10/2026
#85

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Salvaging Slate

Episode 27

Friday, October 23, 2026 • Duration 13:14

Earlier this summer, I told the story of Slate Peak, a historic fire lookout that stood for seventy years at the end of Washington's highest road until it collapsed in March. This is the story of a remarkable group of volunteers who pulled off a salvage effort that was anything but simple, and a glimpse of what it really takes to preserve eight historic fire lookouts in one very short summer.

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Columbia Mountain

Episode 26

Friday, October 16, 2026 • Duration 12:57

A tiny log cabin has been standing on a remote mountaintop in northeastern Washington since 1914. In that time, lookouts have carved their names into its walls and come and gone. I’ve visited it three times and each time I’ve stood in the same doorway and taken a photograph. This week on Fire Lookout Friday: a story about the animals who walk beside us and what a century-old fire lookout can teach us about love, loss, and the places we keep going back to.

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Desolation

Episode 25

Friday, October 9, 2026 • Duration 15:18

All I want is an ice cream cone.

Nearly twenty years after scribbling “Desolation” into a notebook, I finally set out for one of Washington’s most legendary fire lookouts. It took me two attempts to get there. Jack Kerouac spent 63 days up there. I got fifteen minutes. A tale of border crossings, wildfire smoke, and the realization you’re in the worst place imaginable to outrun a lightning storm.

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Lookouts and Lightning, Part 3

Episode 24

Friday, October 2, 2026 • Duration 13:42

What lightning leaves behind. For the last two weeks, I've been talking about lightning. What it's like to ride out a storm from a fire lookout, and what our eyes miss inside a lightning flash. This season, I hunted down three different trees hit by lightning strikes I witnessed from Goat Peak. Come join me to see what happens when lightning hits a tree and what it leaves behind.

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Lookouts and Lightning, Part 2

Episode 23

Friday, September 25, 2026 • Duration 12:18

What happens inside a lightning flash? During an extraordinary August 2024 storm from Goat Peak, I realized I'd been watching something far more complicated than I understood. This week, we slow lightning down to see what our eyes miss and explore everything happening inside a lightning flash in just a fraction of a second.

Visit my substack page, to see the videos and frame-by-frame sequences of some pretty incredible lightning captures.

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Lookouts and Lightning, Part 1

Episode 22

Friday, September 18, 2026 • Duration 17:29

What It's Like to Be Inside the Storm. Lookouts and lightning go together like bread and butter, and this week, I'm taking you inside the storm with some of my favorite audio and video recorded from Goat Peak, to explore what it's actually like to sit inside a glass box on top of a mountain that acts like a lightning rod.

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The Oldest Tool in the Box

Episode 21

Friday, September 11, 2026 • Duration 13:15

For more than a century, fire lookouts have watched over the American West. With the rise of technology, including satellites, cameras, lightning detection, and AI, human lookouts have been called antiquated, obsolete, and destined to disappear.

This week on Fire Lookout Friday: a brief history of how fire lookouts came to be and why human fire lookouts are still relevant and important today.

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On Presence, Ponies, and Scooping Manure

Episode 20

Friday, September 4, 2026 • Duration 12:45

Fire lookout work requires you to pay attention. As it turns out, so do horses and living off-grid. After another intense summer at Goat Peak, I've been thinking about the strange life I've assembled and why all of it seems to ask the same thing of me.

This week on Fire Lookout Friday: some end-of-season musings about presence, ponies, and scooping manure.

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An Invitation to the Yakama Reservation

Episode 19

Friday, August 28, 2026 • Duration 15:18

Most of Washington's fire lookouts I reached through stubbornness, problem-solving, and a truly unreasonable number of failed attempts. Satus and Signal Peak were different. This is a story about luck, timing, and Bigfoot. And one unforgettable June day on the Yakama Reservation.

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War Creek Ridge

Episode 18

Friday, August 21, 2026 • Duration 14:18

Once upon a time, hundreds of fire lookouts stood on mountaintops across Washington. Many are long gone, including the fire lookout on War Creek Ridge, high above the Twisp River. Join me on a steep climb up a nearly vanished trail, following breadcrumbs of history along the way, including the story of a tough-as-nails Methow cowboy named Cliff Libby.

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