KERN COUNTY
SUNDAY PEAK
Sequoia National Forest
August 10, 1920: "The Sequoia Gets Mail By Airplane. On July 31 the Fresno Air Patrol delivered mail to the Lookout on Sunday Peak. In order to make sure that the Lookout received it, the patrol dropped so low that the lead weight on the wireless antennae struck a window; came through into the house, wrapped around a joint of heavy stovepipe, put a dent 1/4 inch deep in the opposite wall, then disappeared out the window, carrying with it the section of stovepipe. The Lookout says he enjoys having his mail delivered daily but prefers to receive his papers somewhat bruised by a longer drop, rather than to chase sections of stovepipe half way down the mountain." (California District News Letter)
October 12, 1921: "Supervisor Cunningham, whose district includes the Sequoia national forest, reports that lightning recently struck the flagpole at the Sunday Peak lookout station and completely demolished it. The pole stood within 30 feet of the cabin, Cunningham states, but no damage was done to that structure because of its protecting lightning rods." (Bakersfield Californian)
September 25, 1922: "Away up at the uttermost pinnacle of Sunday Peak, in the Greenhorn mountain range, sits Mrs. Jennie Abbott, on the lookout for fire in the vast stretches of timber reaching away as far as the horizon, far below and on every side of her lofty eyrie.
Three years Mrs. Abbott has been in the forest service--on Sherman peak, in the Whitney range, in 1920 and 1921 and among the Greenhorns during the past summer.
"There's nothing about the work that a woman can't do," she says, "if she doesn't mind the loneliness."
And Mrs. Abbott doesn't mind it in the least. She has an occasional visitor. She has the company of her pet chipmunk, Sharkey. And to occupy her hands she has her knitting, her crocheting, her needlework and her own little log cabin to keep. Her binoculars lie on her work table, with her telephone beside them, ready to call the nearest ranger at the first faint wisp of smoke in the great forests.
Mrs. Abbott's winter home is Bakersfield. :The Lady Lookout of Sunday Peak," they call her." (Modesto Evening news)
May 21, 1928: "Beginning today, R. Smith of Porterville will be stationed on Sunday Peak as lookout for the forest service during the coming fire season." (Bakersfield Californian)
June 6, 1933: "Lawrence Anderson of Springville is at Sunday Peak lookout station for the summer." (The Bakersfield Californian)
September 5, 1934: "Roy Smith reports over four hundred visitors at the Sunday Peak lookout station since June 1. Elevation of the lookout is 8200 feet above sea level." (Bakersfield Californian)
June 11, 1936: "CCC men from Camp Fulton extinguished a grass fire between Lumro Creek and Jones ranch near Glennville yesterday afternoon. The blaze, reported by the Sunday Peak lookout on Greenhorn Mountain, consumed five acres of grass and burned several small structures, with an estimated loss of $50. It was believed to have been started by a branding iron." (Bakersfield Californian)