the valley of the wind

Firewatch Reference: Inside Fire Lookout Towers

Earlier we took a look at fire lookout towers the team visited during production on Firewatch, and most of the focus was on the locations of the towers, what they looked like from the outside. This time, let’s take a look at what’s actually inside.

As fire lookouts are taken out of service and replaced by cameras, their interiors are at worst stripped bare, or at best converted to camping cabins (reserve one and camp in it here!), but during development we were lucky enough to visit one which had most of its original furniture, and one which was still staffed by an actual lookout. It meant we were able to take hundreds of reference photos of the interior build and furnishings of a lookout tower from the same era as Henry and Delilah’s, and also get a glimpse of the supplies and equipment you’d find in a fully staffed tower. 

Spangle-cheeked Tanager

I know there is a lot of discourse (tm) around this right now but listen to me

If I were lean down and say “unfortunately the big beach ball for some reason fills you with such an unadulterated rage that is beyond human comprehension that you scream until you pass out, so mama had to remove the beach ball from the premises until you can better regulate your emotions” she would simply stare at me like I had 3 heads full of equal betrayal.