Title: August 10, 2021 - Delilah Lookout
Hike Info : Description : Background : Extra Photo's
Trail head: Delilah Lookout
Got up at 0545 and got ready to leave for Delilah. Sherri and I left the garage at 0710. Uneventful trip up to Delilah, so we got there a few minutes before 0900. We did see a white Tacoma pickup, but nobody was there. Also several cows were hogging the road, but eventually theylet us pass. Because there has been a bear reported in the area, we bring up all of our food into the cab. By the time we are down, it is 0925.
Between all of that, we were able to take our weather-moderate temps and the RH well within levels. Then went in service-Porterville did not hear us the first couple of times. Sierra got us right out of the chute. In both cases, we note that we have 8 miles of visibility-not great, but better than yesterday. We then get into the routine of being in a fire lookout. Scanning every 15 minutes, constantly eyeballing stuff. Hearing the morning weather and staffing, the regular stuff.
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| Gary and Sherri |
Interesting. A person with the call sign of Ecology13 reported a fire on a fallen Sequoia. The coordinates given were 399180x0358830. I had not heard coordinates referenced that way before. But if you look at topo maps, there are markings which have coordinates in that reference. Looks like it is just southwest of the Peppermint Work Center.
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| Sherri with our dinner |
We have lunch-normal peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches. Afterwards I lay down and take a nap while Sherri stands watch. This is only fair as Sherri got a nap this morning and I drove up here. But nothing exciting happened.
And so went the rest of the afternoon scanning, looking, reading and chatting. We talked with Greg a bit about a wasp nest on the outhouse-he will take care of it. Also Walter from our church called. Duly impressed we are in a lookout.
At 1800, we went out of service for the night. Tomorrow is another day. Sherri commented that it is really nice not to be doing a 0800 to 2000 day like we did a couple of weeks ago at Park Ridge. Less tiring. Also today was a pretty quiet day. We had two-thirds of a page of entries in our log sheet. Two weeks ago we were doing three and four pages with all of the activity.
Dinner is leftovers-a hamburger and a chicken sandwich. Satisfying. This was topped off with a Nutella pizza. Life is so good up here. Now it is getting dark and it is time for bed. But just before going to bed, we take a final look out-admiring the stars, moon and Venus.
Background
A few days before going to Delilah, I was listening to an album called Attainable Love by Christine Lavin. She has a song which really would have been a perfect background to this scene called Venus Kissed the Moon. Some of the lyrics are:
We watched her in the Sky
She's been - flirtin' with him for centuries
Too bad he's so shy
He's waxing
He's waining
You don't see Venus complaining
She'll steal a kiss whenever she can
Extra Photo's
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| Flag at sunset |
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| Sherri with a sunset in her hands |
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| Waterfall, Delilah Style |
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| Gary and Sherri at sunset |
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| Pine Ridge at dusk |
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