Winter @ Moran Patrol Cabin
Caleb 📷 Stolte
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
John Muir, 1912
End Of Season
2016
2016
October
Leif Haugen & Kjell Petersen photos
Ceraunophilia
2016
2016
August
Ceraunophilia: (n)
A condition common in people who
staff lookouts of loving thunder and lightning
and finding storms intensely beautiful..
Mark Hufstetler & Kjell Petersen photos
Lookout Abstracts
2016
2016
August
Thank you Mark Hufstetler
for this alternative view
of the lookout world.
Lookout Skies
2016
2016
August
"Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storms,
but to add color to my sunset sky."
Rabindranath Tagore
Beth Hodder photos
Debo's Baptiste LO Blog
2016
2016
August
"Hours spent on a lookout
do not tally against your allotted
time on earth."
TheLookoutLama
Debo Powers photos
Flathead NF Volunteer Lookout Orientation @ Cooney LO
2016
2016
June
Board Members Nancy & Cathy
Kjell Petersen photos
Ready For Staffing
Todd & Debo Gettn' High
Volunteers & Staff
Leif Time
Baptiste Lookout Open for the Season
2016
2016
July
That View Never Gets Old
That's A Lot Of Steps!
The View Never Gets Old
"Although mountains
belong to the Nations,
mountains belong to people
who love them".
Dogen
The Reason for the Season
July
2016
Lady Grouse On Alert
Evening Glow Over St Nick
Final Rays
"Who can leap the world's ties
and sit with me
among the white clouds?"
Gary Snyder
Barb Penner photos
Picnic Table Maintenance
Moments from Firefighter Lookout
2016
2016
July
That View Never Gets Old
A Fresh Coat of Paint
Sunset Reflection
Morning Fog on the Reservoir
Harebell Glow
"Then I'm alone in a glass house on a ridge encircled by chiming mountains with one sun roaring through the house all day and others crashing through the glass all night, conscious even while sleeping."
Philip Whalen
August
2016
ZenRock Grouse
Hey Bear - Move Along!
Perfection
"How the gravity of Nature and her silence startles you; when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills"
Goethe
Sky Fire
Kjell Petersen photos
McGuire Condition Assessment
2016
2016
May
Board Members Nancy & Cathy
Photos courtesy
Don Stolte & Chuck Manning
Assessing the Interior
Thank Goodness for Signs
Welcome Sign
Hard To Imagine Fire Season
Benefit Brews Night
Happy NWMT/FFLA Staffers & Friends
2016
May
KBC Staff---Ross, Montana, Lacey & Nathan
What Goes Better With Brews
2016
2016
May
Sharing Stories & Toasts
Tall Tower Tales
Raffle Winner - Betty Violette - Congrats!
Kjell Petersen photos
KBC's Nathan Drawing The Raffle Winner
Give Local Flathead
2016
2016
May
Barb & Steve Penner Staffing NWMT Display
Board Members Nancy & Cathy
Board Member Rick Ready To Share
Springtime At Firefighter
Winter Losing Its Hold
2016
Patiently Waiting For Another Watching Season
Transition Time
Glacier Lilies Abound
Kjell Petersen Photos
May
2016
Pioneer Ridge Smoke
Between the Clouds
Inside the Glass House
2016
Photo sets above and below
courtesy of Mark Hufstetler, NWMT/FFLA
member and FS lookout volunteer.
Reflections on Baptiste Lookout
"If you ever want your soul
to dance in the clouds,
you will at some point
have to juggle lightning
and taste thunder".
Christopher Poindexter
April
Season Changes - Time to Relax
Brews For Benefits
The Happy NWMT/FFLA Staffers
Thanks Girly, Brendan & Kristin!
2016
Going to be a busy 2016
April
2016
Libby is always kind to us!
The Libby Crowd is always happy
Awesome Hospitality Sarah Sorenson
Cap Faux Pas
2016
April
Spring At Cooney
2016
Cooney Slumber
Stairway to the Sky
Waiting to Rumble
Kjell Petersen
Kjell Petersen
Kjell Petersen
"How glorious a greeting
the Sun gives the Mountains!".
John Muir
2016
March
"Life seems neither long or short,
and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars.
This is true freeedom, a good practical sort of immortality".
John Muir
Railing Icicles
Kjell Petersen
Community Tap Night
NWMT-FFLA Tamarack Event Staff
Tamarack Brewing Company Staff
2016
February