Sunday, I went south and did a couple lovely fire towers.  First up was a 2.5 hour drive to Balsam Lake via Beaverkill Rd.  There are 2 ways up this mountain, so you can do it as a lollypop loop.  The trail itself is in rather good shape, and apart from a couple spots of mud and a bit of water on one of the steeper parts, it was a dry trail.  I went up the easy way, going straight when the trail to the tower breaks off to the left.  This took me up a valley between Balsam Lake and Graham and Doubletop mountains (2 of the 35'ers that are on private land and curr