Keller Peak Fire Lookout

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Post by Slowest_Hiker »

USFS confirmed the station at Keller Peak was destroyed in the Line Fire. :evil:
One near Buck Point is likely also a casualty of the Bridge Fire, but nobody has laid eyes on it yet.
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Do you physically have to visit these to pull the data out? So you don't know with 100% certainty what survived and what didn't until you go there?
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Normally no, data transfer would be automated*, often by cell modem nowadays in remote sites in the western U.S. like these. But fire or other disaster could affect power/comms without destroying the station. So eyes are needed to confirm what's gone on and whether return to service is feasible.

* Exception: a very few sites in the Sierra were still hike-in data retrieval, last I asked anyway.

P.S. not sure what happened with this being a new topic; I was replying to an old thread as far as I knew.
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Post by Sean »

Slowest_Hiker wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 5:11 pmP.S. not sure what happened with this being a new topic; I was replying to an old thread as far as I knew.
I created a new topic for your post, since it wasn't related to the Gleason topic. To which topic were you trying to reply?
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Ah ty. That Gleason topic diverted into a pic of the Keller GPS site eventually. But I see your point.
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