Rustic cabin in Washington stands alone on a mountain at 7,000 feet

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Rustic cabin in Washington stands alone on a mountain at 7,000 feet | Boing Boing

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[anon33932455]

I love that the roof corners are anchored to the surrounding rocks.

[rocketpj]

My kids: “Does it have good wifi?”

[lastchance]

If you like that, you might be interested in fire lookout TikTok:

#firelookout | TikTok

[bashful]

Interesting. It leaves me with so many questions about the necessities. How do the occupants deal with waste? Where does the water come from and where does it go? Is there any sort of power at all - like to warm the place up?

[VeronicaConnor]

The answer to all your questions is the same- pack it in, pack it out. This is the norm for back-country cabins like this. No services, and leave no trace.

Want heat? Pack in your propane. Want a toilet? Pack in a composter bag. Pack it all out or you’re a monster.

As for this particular one? Because of the heights…

[CoffeeStar]

Somewhere, near that cabin. There’s growing a pile of poo, and another one of garbage most likely, that isn’t going anywhere.

[MadLibrarian]

I swear I read about this cabin in one of my books about climbers and climbing. David Roberts, maybe?

[Brainspore]

@anon33932455

roof corners are anchored to the surrounding rocks.

I think those may be lighting grounding cables. Reminds me of the shelter on top of Mount Whitney, which has the distinction of being the highest permanent building in the contiguous United States.

Smithsonian Institution Shelter

Suffice to say that this is not the kind of place you’d want to be during an electrical storm unless you’d taken some pretty significant safety precautions.

[micah]

The linked article includes an embed of a good quality youtube video showing the hike up and down:

Three Fingers Look Out | A Cabin on a Cliff

This looks really, really cool. And also something I will never do.

[RickMycroft]

@Brainspore

Suffice to say that this is not the kind of place you’d want to be during an electrical storm unless you’d taken some pretty significant safety precautions.

Maybe a metal enclosure would be better?

[Brainspore]

IANAE but I think if you’re going to be in a building on top of a mountain during an electrical storm you want the main structure of the building to act as an insulator while a conductive lightning rod and metal cable channel any strikes to the ground.

[Mindysan33]

Also…

Ethiopia’s Chapel in the Sky

[Otherbrother]

@Brainspore

I think if you’re going to be in a building on top of a mountain during an electrical storm you want the main structure of the building to act as an insulator while a conductive lightning rod and metal cable channel any strikes to the ground.

You want more earthquakes? Because that’s how you get more earthquakes.

A Blasphemous Invention–Religious Objections to Ben Franklin’s Lightning Rod

In America, Reverend Thomas Price of Old South Church in Massachusetts blamed the earthquake of 1755 on Franklin’s blasphemous invention. Since God could not vent his retribution from the sky, the Reverend said, he did it by shaking the Earth. He concluded by saying that “God’s wrath will not be thwarted.”

[kqueues]

A few years back, we went stayed and went diving out at this interesting B&B:

Frying Pan Tower - FPTower Inc.

~ 32 miles off of the Carolina coast. Certainly a different view, but the isolation was wonderful.

[FloridaManJefe]

That. Is. Way. Cool!
and they have a shark camera!
sharks are cool!
(i’ll bet the cabin on the mountain doesn’t have a shark cam. no.)

[L0ki]

@FloridaManJefe

(i’ll bet the cabin on the mountain doesn’t have a shark cam. no.)

But how will they document the sharknados?