that really sucks... but those pictures are beautiful!
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that really sucks... but those pictures are beautiful!
That would explain why there was so little for aerial activity. I watched the aerial drop planes making laps while I was fishing Gold Creek on Saturday morning. Looked like they had a little bit of control of it during Saturday morning, but then the wind picked up again. While we were cooking dinner at camp on Saturday night thought I heard one of the super tankers make a lap, but never saw it.Quote:
Originally Posted by telehacker
Goddamn people needing a fire in camp while backpacking always amazes me. Why do you need a fire on a 90 degree day? Are you cold, or do you just need something to look at even though there is cell service up there so you can stare at your phone too while your fire burns unattended?
View from my office, looking over Missoula.Attachment 496440
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This is updated daily- https://www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/sitreprt.pdfQuote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
Important to note that sometimes fires being managed for resource benefit and not suppression are not included.
Shits getting real in OR
Cow Valley fire - south of Baker City, west of Weiser ID - 133k acres of grass & brush, 10% contained
Falls Fire - NW of Burns - 91k acres of scrubland, no containment
Lone Rock Fire - SE of Condon, 71k acres of scrub, 10% contained, town of Lonerock under level 3 evac orders
Larch Creek Fire - west of Tyghe Valley - 19k acres of timber and scrub, 27% contained.
And last night in Central OR, we had lightning come thru and at least six new fires started.
Here we go again…
We've been catching your smoke in SW Idaho for awhile now. Stay safe.
those airtractors are amazing and thats a cool vid ^^ , when they sortie out of here the crew have a table reserved at the local craft brew where they toast the missionQuote:
Originally Posted by hawkgt
It’s here too as of yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conundrum
My friend’s husband may have saved part of Taylor on Monday. Power outage in town. Riding his bike home in the heatwave. Saw a chip pile burning under a power pole. Tried to smother it, and dumped all his water on it. Found a cop nearby-is who was ticketing somebody. Had the cop call it in. FD showed up shortly and extinguished.Quote:
Originally Posted by TBS
I feel for you downwinders.
Last year there were six days between July 25 and Labor Day when AQI in my hood (and 75 miles in any direction) was less than 80 (my maximum for MTB rides). Even then you could taste the smoke.
And three hours later, AQI in town is 95…
A new wildfire has shut down Highway 20 through the North Cascades in Washington. I have a feeling it could be closed for a while.
BC just got lit up big time last night from lightning. It has been an incredible summer so far..... FFS!
^^^Yeah, Oregon had over 1000 lightning strikes Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Small fires everywhere on west slope of Cascades, Southern OR and Central OR.
Okay, I was wrong about that! Hopefully it can stay open.Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
Much of Oregon is on fire
And the area shaded in red signifies Red Flag Warnings
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That blue dot it where I live. Prevailing winds are westerly
AQI has been Teh Suck
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The reading of 32 is at the District Ranger Station :rolleyes:
I think their sensor is inside the building.
I’m really beginning to hate living here - it’s to the point where you can’t go outside for half the summer
SLC fire near Ensign peak, started about 5pm tonight. Great pic by someone at KSL
https://img.ksl.com/slc/3000/300094/30009495.jpeg
^^^ Man I was watching helicopters fly back and forth from Red Butte and jets flying in circles all evening. Sketchy...
I’m sorry. We went through this for several years in a row at our place. It sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by TBS
It's kind of hard to think of a place I’d want to live that isn’t at more than a moderate risk of wildfire smoke.Quote:
Originally Posted by TBS
Same, I love the inter mountain westQuote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
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You’re not the only one I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by TBS
Why I Gave Up the Pacific Northwest to Move Back East
We've had three nice summers in a row in Helena, with very little smoke. I knew we were due.
^ After some rough summers recently, northern NM is doing good <knock wood>. Raining as I type. I’ve been afraid to mention it.
Though Ruidoso got its ass kicked, rain probably did the most damage.
It used to be a lot smokier in the West according to historians. Summers were smoky and it makes sense, natural and native set fires without suppression.
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I’m too lazy to look up a reference, but Tom Swetnam, tree-ring-ologist extraordinaire, estimated that lightning and native fires in the Jemez Mtns (a not particularly big range in northern NM) burned about a million acres annually before (and this is key) industrial grazing and logging fucked up the system. The beautiful well-spaced Ponderosa pine forests of yesteryear burned regularly. You can bet the skies weren’t totally clear all summer. Wasn’t as hot back then tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
Yosemite Valley is another place that burned regularly before Europeans showed up and got all heavy-handed. Old pictures show a way less dense forest.
I’ve seen pictures from the late 1800s in the Cascades and it was a very different landscape than after a century of fire suppression. Lots more “parkland” forest, meadows and bare ridge lines. The result of natural and human caused fires.
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Yeah, me too. Other than the summer fires, I love it here. But every summer beginning 2016 we’ve had major fires in the area that make outdoor living unbearable for more than a month.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
And it’s painful to see the places where I used to play since I was a kid turn to ash. Something like 400k acres in just the McKenzie River drainage has burned in the last 8 years. Whole towns burned.
I did get a 90 min MTB ride early AM the last three days when AQI was ~70 so maybe I should quit whining.
He’s a pussy. One shitty fire season and one heat dome and he’s out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by TBS
That’s what I was thinking, he’s softQuote:
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We’ve had several friends leave the Sierra foothills for NE, all, in-part, to escape the smoky summers. Last summer didn’t work out for them….
Getting a little too exciting at my parents house in Missoula. Of course they ignored the sheriff at 2am and did not evacuate. "but we hooked up the 5th wheel" :rolleyes2
All photos from their deck...
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:nonono2:Quote:
Originally Posted by 406
I work at the west end of the airport, couple miles from this fire. Not much smoke to be seen anymore... should be fine as long as it stays out of the timber.Quote:
Originally Posted by 406
A bit ago they had three helicopters working it with buckets, and an air-attack circling high.
All I can see now is a bit of charred grass on the ridge and the occasional helo through the haze. AQI ~150, not bad but not great.
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Yeah, thankful to the air support (sounds like pulling water from Grant Cr.) and ground crews moving in fast. If it starts up TV mountain, could be very bad for snowbowl. There has been some thinning on the mid elevations of TV, but still lots of fuel in spots.
They're dipping from the pond at Grant creek ranch.
I'm concerned for the ski hill, too, especially when the cold front comes through later in the week and the winds kick to 30+ kts. Hiked up there yesterday and it's dry af, just like everything else around here.
Dad is telling me fire trucks moved on from parents property, but left hoses deployed.