The lightning rods start at the peak of the roof, follow the edge of the roof on all sides and go down the corners to the ground. They are made out of copper wire, about 1/4 inch thick, as I recall.
My lookout, Diablo, was 7500 feet elevation. My buddy's lookout was Hidden Peak, 7800 feet.
Nearby Graves Peak firelookout.com
was something like 8300 feet elevation, but has been out of use for decades when I was up on Diablo in 1962, primarily because it was in the clouds all the time.
Grave Peak is a movie star of sorts. If you have ever read "The Ranger, The Cook, and the Hole In The Sky," which was a novella in the famous book called "A River Runs Through It," by Norman McClean, or seen the movie called "Hole In The Sky" starring Sam Elliott, the plot follows a fictional McClean who spent a tour on Graves Peak. He experiences a lightning storm just like the one I had on Diablo.
In the movie, the countryside was played by a stand-in, British Columbia. The real thing is much more beautiful. |
