Great day at the lookout!

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Great day today on the mountain in Southern Arizona. We got the water hooked up to the lookout, and the water heater running. My boss and I hiked around in some pretty steep terrain (at 9000 feet) following the water line from the tank to the lookout and then back up. Then he and I drove over to the ranger station for a company cookout at lunch. I got to meet some great USFS people: from young firefighters to long-time volunteers in their 80s. A prevention tech drove me on the grand tour of the area, especially the dispersed camping sites (which were already filling up for Easter weekend). Some of the roughest roads I have ever seen! We toured Summerhaven, and I bought some tomatoes at the General Store. The prevention tech then drove me up to the observatory gate and I hiked back in to the lookout. I went back into service and immediately spotted a large smoke in Tucson, which was a mobile home fire. Big day; exhausted; legs of rubber!

Then there was the eclipse from 9000 feet on Monday night. What a perch! What a view!





All in a black, an ink black sky,
Not like the Sun at noon,
Right over Lemmon Rock did stand,
'Twas the bloody Moon.

Apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge