Pinyon Peak Lookout: An Ineluctable Place

[Bo Zarts]

Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho
©2022 Bo Zarts Studio

[FreepFryer]

1. why is the place inevitable and unavoidable? cant u drive around the mountain? (nt)

[liberal N proud]

2. Can't go around it, can't go through it

Can’t go under it.
I guess we will have to go over it.


Why go around when you can go over.

[FreepFryer]

3. the Icarus plan :)

[2naSalit]

4. That road that gets you there...

Is probably the only road that's ever gonna be there and it's a rough one. I wouldn't want to take my own 4Runner up there but I would drive a FS truck.

[ret5hd]

5. Are FS trucks kinda like rental cars?

Able to go into reverse at a high rate of speed?
Able to cross center meridians effortlessly?
Able to ford flooded roads?

I love rental cars.

[2naSalit]

6. Not exactly.

In fact, completely different.

Since they belong to the taxpayers. It's not like I'd tear it up, which is stupid because that would be a self inflicted threat to my survival, well for the places I went in them. When you go out in a wilderness, doesn't matter how you get there, survival in a natural setting is the number one topic. If you had a good, functioning vehicle when you got there, kind of stupid to mess it up so you can't get back.

The part I would be relying on with it being a FS vehicle is that I would have a radio and at least one spotter unit so if anything did go wrong, somebody would be out looking for me asap. And I don't know if my insurance would cover problems out in a wilderness.

And we are talking actual, federally declared, real honest to mother nature wilderness... bears and all.