IDAHO COUNTY
OLD MAN POINT
Clearwater National Forest
34N-9E-20
34N-9E-20
1931: 10-foot tower with L-4 cab (Kresek)
1934: The tower was burned in the Pete King Fire and not replaced.
1981: "Ranger Roy Lewis manned the point for the first time in 1931 by setting in a tent camp with Bill Dennison as lookout. That same year Carpenters Earnest Hartman and Harry Chenoweth were moved in and with Dennison's help built a 20 foot high log tower on which they assembled a pre-cut L-4 lookout cabin. Material for the cabin was packed in from Bimerick cabin via the Lochsa River trail. The Old Man tower was another of those ill fated structures that were over run by the 1934 fire. It went up in smoke on August 17, a day or so after the lookout had been called to Lochsa Station for fire fighting duty." (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' -1981)