Several folks have posted reports/photos from Wildcat Mountain and commented on how the summit (where the lookout once stood) has almost completely grown over. Well, just to make myself feel REALLY ANCIENT, I dug up these photos from a hike in November 1989...! Check out what a QUARTER CENTURY(gulp!) has done for the view:
This is the south side, looking into the Eagle Creek valley -- a wide open view back in the day:
This is also the south side, looking east toward Plaza Ridge:
Here's a view of the summit from where the broken glass, bits of metal and a few chunks of wood used to mark the lookout tower location, looking southeast (toward the Plaza):
Here's the view from the summit, looking northeast, with part of Hood and Huckleberry Mountain plainly in view (without peeking between trees):
The gentleman in the photos was one of my college roommates, wearing his vintage 1980s glasses, I notice! Ah, the 80s...
Tom
Wildcat Mountain Summit - November 1989
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Wow, that was a long time ago! I barely remember before the sun became round and was still a hexagon!
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Wow! I had read about the ice age in school but I've never seen any pictures of it. Thanks for sharing.
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Hmm... so that would make me a caveman? Well, if the label fits..!
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Wow...no clear cuts, great views. Wish that could be recreated now!
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There hasn't been any logging up there since then. If anything the late 1980s represented the last hurrah for logging on National Forest land, thank goodness.weathercrazy wrote:Wow...no clear cuts, great views. Wish that could be recreated now!
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Thanks for sharing this, Tom. Great look back
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viking wrote:Wow, that was a long time ago! I barely remember before the sun became round and was still a hexagon!
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Make that x 2!Bosterson wrote:viking wrote:Wow, that was a long time ago! I barely remember before the sun became round and was still a hexagon!
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