Big Hole Lookout Maintenance Days

Several projects to complete including:

Enlarge hole for bolt passing through shutter and window on shutter right of door (facing door from exterior). Smooth and paint interior sill where wood has been carved away to facility shutter closure. Shutter very difficult to close currently. Two people for 1/2 day. Battery operated drill with wood bit, flat cutter Dewalt battery tool, green paint.

Scrape, sand and paint LO chipping paint on exterior. 2 people for 1/2 day. White exterior paint, battery operated sander with sandpaper. Due to the harsh environment this is an annual activity.

Scrape, sand and paint inside of lookout. 2 people for one day. Green interior paint, battery operated sander with sandpaper.

Resize cut firewood pieces already at the lookout so they can be used in the woodstove inside the lookout.  2 people for one day, chainsaws, fuel, oil, PPE, etc.

Cut dead/down LP located on Spring Crk trail below outhouse for stove size firewood (15″). Cut, stack and cover wood for renters to retrieve.

Cut green trees near the lookout. Limb, skid and stack the cut green trees near the firewood cache where they can dry out and be cut to stove size in the future.  After felling and limbing, buck the tree bole (log) into lengths that can be carried by two folks to the cache site.

Camping at the gravel pit or some may choose to stay at the lookout.