GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY
COLONEL BOB
Olympic National Forest
23N-8W-7
23N-8W-7
August 30, 1931: "They live in a glass house and enjoy real privacy. And at night they never bother to pull down the blinds.
High above the clouds and looking down upon acres and acres of the most rugged kind of mountain scenery is Colonel Bob peak in the Olympics, a mountain that lifts its barren face 4500 feet to the sky. And perched on the very top of the peak is the one-room residence of Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Hall, a couple married last spring. The building is the forest service fire lookout station, equipped with telephone, fire locating instruments and other apparatus, and almost completely sided with glass windows. It is virtually tied to the mountain top by four huge copper cables fastened to crags.
Instead of gazing at tall cornstalks of her native state, Iowa, Mrs. Hall this summer has been looking down upon tall hemlocks, cedars and firs. Mr. Hall, originally from North Dakota, came to the Olympics two years ago from Portland, but this his first season on Colonel Bob." (The Sunday Oregonian)
High above the clouds and looking down upon acres and acres of the most rugged kind of mountain scenery is Colonel Bob peak in the Olympics, a mountain that lifts its barren face 4500 feet to the sky. And perched on the very top of the peak is the one-room residence of Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Hall, a couple married last spring. The building is the forest service fire lookout station, equipped with telephone, fire locating instruments and other apparatus, and almost completely sided with glass windows. It is virtually tied to the mountain top by four huge copper cables fastened to crags.
Instead of gazing at tall cornstalks of her native state, Iowa, Mrs. Hall this summer has been looking down upon tall hemlocks, cedars and firs. Mr. Hall, originally from North Dakota, came to the Olympics two years ago from Portland, but this his first season on Colonel Bob." (The Sunday Oregonian)
August 11, 1933: "Married a week ago, Gile Mead, and former Miss Sadie McQuarrie of Hoquiam are perfectly at ease while spending a honeymoon in their 14 by 14-foot glass house. Mr. and Mrs. Mead are perfectly safe from people who throw stones or check up on window shades. They are in a forest service fire lookout station, 5,000 feet high on Mount Colonel Bob in the Olympic forest." (The Evening Tribune - Albert Lea, Minnesota)
1934: A wood 14x14 standard R-6 plan ground house was constructed on the Quinault Ranger District. Accessible by a seven and a half mile trail. (Lookout Station - Structural Inventory)
1967: The lookout house was removed.