I was the lookout on Tamarack in the summer of 1968, my summer job while at OSU. Good pay, $2.85 an hour. The 1st user of the cabin there now. The old one burned down. Spent 3 months with my dog. Did weather reports, used a WWII radio to report fires and we had a bunch. Water was at spring near Rocky Flats about 2 miles. My first reported fire was a sheepherders cook fire that got away from him. I was on the tower one night during a dry lightning storm marking strikes on the fire finder setting on my insulated stool. I reported the unexpected storm and pulled my antenna. My dog climbed the tower and I opened the trap door and grabbed her, the roof started buzzing and had a blue Corona (St Elmo's fire). I don't think I took a direct strike but it taught me a lot about life. Two years later I was in Vietnam...