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California's Gold with Huell Howser
Fire Lookout
Season 4
Episode 4003
Travel with Huell to Sequoia National Forest to visit historic Buck Rock Fire Lookout. Established in the early 1900s,Buck Rock Lookout was one of the first fire detection locations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The current lookout building, constructed in1923, is historically significant as a representation of the earliest live-in towers in California. Huell climbs 172 stairs to 8,500 feet.
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