Lookout Details Registry Numbers US 68, WA 5 Date Registered July 15, 1993 Nominated by Ray Kresek, Washington Director, Historic Lookout Project, FFLA Location Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Snohomish County, Washington Coordinates N 48° 10.187' W 121° 41.259' (Google Maps) Elevation 6603' Administered by U.S. Forest Service Cooperators Darrington Ranger District, and Friends of Three Fingers Description When Darrington District Ranger Harold J. Engles and trail foreman Harry Bedel decided to construct a lookout in 1931, they picked a high rock spire overlooking thousands acres of old-growth timber on the Snoqualmie National Forest to the east of Seattle, Washington. All the materials had to be lifted the last 1,000 feet via a windlass made from telephone wire. Although the Three Fingers Lookout was staffed for only ten years and abandoned in 1943, the daughter of the last observer led the project to restore the 14 x 14 L-4 groundhouse in 1986. Efforts to keep the building were encouraged by retired Ranger Engles who lived to see the project completed before his passing in August, 1993. All information provided by National Historic Lookout Register. , OCR Text: Lookout Details Registry Numbers US 68, WA 5 Date Registered July 15, 1993 Nominated by Ray Kresek, Washington Director, Historic Lookout Project, FFLA Location Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Snohomish County, Washington Coordinates N 48° 10.187' W 121° 41.259' (Google Maps) Elevation 6603' Administered by U.S. Forest Service Cooperators Darrington Ranger District, and Friends of Three Fingers Description When Darrington District Ranger Harold J. Engles and trail foreman Harry Bedel decided to construct a lookout in 1931, they picked a high rock spire overlooking thousands acres of old-growth timber on the Snoqualmie National Forest to the east of Seattle, Washington. All the materials had to be lifted the last 1,000 feet via a windlass made from telephone wire. Although the Three Fingers Lookout was staffed for only ten years and abandoned in 1943, the daughter of the last observer led the project to restore the 14 x 14 L-4 groundhouse in 1986. Efforts to keep the building were encouraged by retired Ranger Engles who lived to see the project completed before his passing in August, 1993. All information provided by National Historic Lookout Register. , Granite Falls Historical Society,Documents (articles, clippings, letters, papers),Mapping Articles,P-T,Three_Fingers.pdf,Three_Fingers.pdf Page 1, Three_Fingers.pdf Page 1