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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 7, 2014 - 03:14pm PT
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HOLY SH#T!
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PSP also PP
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Last monday I saw a fire back there and was wondering about it.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Holy Crap! Keeping my fingers crossed...
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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OH NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Wow. This is very bad.
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Bad Climber
climber
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Damn. Was there any lightning, or is this another moron fire?
And the West will burn.
BAd
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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adikted
Boulder climber
Tahooooeeeee
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Left tuolumne this mornin and had no idea there was this fire..we saw little fires from the top of cathedral a few days ago but nothing of this magnitude...damn
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bob
climber
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Meadow Fire Yosemite National Park
Little Yosemite Valley
A *MANAGED* natural burn in Little Yosemite Valley broke the natural barriers and has grown to 400 acres today. They are flying crews in to get around this guy. Yosemite Manages their fires, this fire started mid-August from lightning.
Normally Yosemite is a retardant exclusion zone, but they are allowing the tankers to fly on this fire.
Official Information: http://goo.gl/qvPqGj
Group photo album: http://goo.gl/8Zrfc7 *New thing, feel free to post there*
Webcams showing smoke: http://goo.gl/1AS4eU
[YubaNet] http://goo.gl/NvAytT
Yosemite Fire Update September 4, 2014 Update #17 - Yosemite National Park (U.S. National Park...
goo.gl
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Looks like right around bunnell point/ moraine dome.
Damn
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Dramatic. In a few years, this fire will also be forgotten. The new landscape (or canvas) is just getting a fresh coat.
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PSP also PP
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Managed fire became an unmanaged fire; oops! didn't that happen in foresta a few years ago. Maybe managed fires during drought/dry season shouldn't happen.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Have heard that around 100 hikers have been removed by helicopter. Wow. Wonder how many copters involved?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Sure hope everyone is safe up there.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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shit sh#t shit! my plans up thata ways next weekend are in jeopardy. what can i do to help put it out? i know a good rain dance ...
Nope, your plans are cancelled. Be a good citizen and stay out of the area and don't add to the firefighter problems.....
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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from Stately Pleasure Dome...
from Olmstead Point 20 minutes later
looking east
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Gearhead
Trad climber
Novato Ca
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Descended Tenaya Canyon Sat/Sun. There was a fatality on Sat on the first steep descent, then Sun was spent watching the sky above the canyon fill with smoke. For a while it was like twilight at midday. Made a tough day even more stressful.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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^^^Good shots, Ed. Thanks. I'm sittin' here all "appalled" & humbled by how fast this spread. (Thanks, Mr. Drought. I hope you enjoy your date with Ma Nature.)
Good times, bad times,
Yo-ha-mi-te's had it's share.
Smokey is a-prowlin'
And a-growlin' at the air.
It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong
--Spirit, Nature's Way
Nothin's really "wrong" with fire in the backcountry.
It's a "normal" event and has been since the world began.
WHERE DO WE HUMANS, ALL OF US TOURISTS ON THIS EARTH, FIT IN?
I can't answer that in a facile manner. It's an important question, though. But this fire is a directly-caused event made possible by NPS' policy of letting burns go on, which seems an enlightened one, until we hear of this kind of thing and the thing that happened several years ago and burned from Foresta to the Tuulumne Meadows road.
HOW MUCH ARE OUR PIDDLIN' "PLANS" WORTH IN THE END?
Not a heck of a lot, it seems, when Natures 'way' goes contrary to our plans and policies.
Life and nature are like a box of chocolates, eh?
And so it goes.
I won't say "Good luck." What I do say is that I hope no one gets injured.
Are there any plans to close Glacier Point Road?
Forrest Fire Gump says,
"I'm not sorry I had to light in the middle of your Back Country party."
Aside to scrubbin' bubbles, you crack me up and I'm with you when you call 'em "ying yangs."
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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It's raining a little there now which should help things out.
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