#desolation peak

[brianmchenry]

Grief brings strange memories - Jack Kerouac is on Desolation Peak again and I am wondering if it matters any more

[walaw717]

During the summer of 1956, author Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) spends 63 days as a U.S. Forest Service fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the Mount Baker National Forest in Whatcom County. Kerouac hopes to use the solitude to write, but he will be disappointed. His experiences in the Northwest and his journal entries will provide material for two novels: The Dharma Bums (1958) and Desolation Angels (1960).

"And suddenly I saw the Northwest was a great deal more than the little vision I had of it in my mind. It was miles and miles of unbelievable mountains on all horizons in the wild broken clouds, Mount Olympus and Mount Baker, a giant orange sash in the gloom over the Pacific-ward skies that led I knew toward the Hokkaido Siberian desolations of the world. I huddled against the bridgehouse hearing the Mark Twain talk of the skipper and the wheelman inside. In the deepened dusk fog ahead the big red neons saying: PORT OF SEATTLE. And suddenly everything Japhy had ever told me about Seattle began to seep into me like cold rain, I could feel it and see it now, and not just think it. It was exactly like he'd said: wet, immense, timbered, mountainous, cold, exhilarating, challenging. The ferry nosed in at the pier on Alaskan Way and immediately I saw the totem poles in old stores and the ancient 1880-style switch goat with sleepy firemen chug chugging up and down the waterfront spur like a scene from my old dreams, the old Casey Jones locomotive of American, the only one I ever saw that old outside of Western movies, but actually working and hauling boxcars in the smoky gloom of the magic city. "

[i8seattle]

Hozomeen Mountain

Hozomeen Mountain

[the69thdimension]

Missing the summers I spent working on fire lookouts - bonus pic. Not a lookout I’ve worked. Unfortunately...

Desolation Peak, North Cascades, Washington. The one Kerouac worked.

[dimartblog]

Pork and Beans

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Γεννημένος στη Georgia, ο κιθαρίστας και τραγουδιστής Jake Xerxes Fussell ταξίδεψε από μικρός με τον μουσικολόγο και φωτογράφο πατέρα του στις εσχατιές του Αμερικάνικου Νότου, ψάχνοντας για ξεχασμένους από τον χρόνο μουσικούς και παραδόσεις. Μετά από ευδόκιμη άσκηση στους beat απόηχους του Berkeley, ανδρώθηκε καλλιτεχνικά στο…

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[ncascades]

A video from PBS: "Jack Kerouac remains one of the most recognizable names in modern American literature. In 1956, he spent 63 days living and writing in solitude on top of Desolation Peak in the North Cascades mountains. His time on the mountain helped to define his voice as a writer and shaped in him a love of nature that permeates his writing and transformed him into an unexpected ally of the conservation movement." Learn how you can visit Ross Lake and climb Desolation Peak to Kerouac's fire lookout with North Cascades this August with our "Poets on the Peaks" Field Excursion at http://ncascades.org/signup/programs/beats-on-the-peaks

[muhammadgiovanni]

But night would come and with it the mountain moon and the lake would be moonlaned and I'd go out and sit in the grass and meditate facing west, wishing there were a Personal God in all this impersonal matter..." "I'd say "Time for a hot coffee and a cigarette, boys," addressing my imaginary bhikkus. The moon became full and huge and with it came Aurora Borealis over Mt. Hozomeen ("Look at the void and it is even stiller,"....) "Buddy-o, yiddam, diddam dee," ..And it was all mine, not another human pair of eyes in the world were looking at this immense cycloramic universe of matter.

Jack Kerouac on a night spent at Desolation Peak; the Dharma Bums

[i8seattle]

Desolation Peak

Desolation Peak is located on the east side of Ross Lake, along the border with the Pasayten Wilderness. There is a lookout tower atop Desolation, which is still manned by the park service. actually the lookout is a historical site, having been the inspiration to numerous authors, including Jack Kerouac and his book, “Desolation Angels”. The hike from the lake shore to the summit is 4,500 feet…

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