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Article: Look Out! Perching Atop Towers in National Forests
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 9, 1995
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When our family made arrangements to camp out in an abandoned
lookout tower in Colorado's San Juan National Forest, we anticipated
having remarkable views, a lush forest to explore and a comfortable
perch to sleep in, 55 feet above the ground.
We found all those things. But no one warned us about the cows.
There they were, a bovine welcoming committee of more than 50
cattle, grazing and milling around the base of the tower when we
drove up. We mooed at them and they ambled off, only to return and
surround the tower once we had settled into our rustic penthouse
suite. Eventually they shuffled away, and we had the tall wooden
tower to ourselves for two July nights.
Our tower, dubbed the Jersey ...