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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Am wondering how smoke conditions are on the Eastside right now? Has it improved since a few days ago?
Would appreciate an update from any local residents. Thanks in advance!
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ruppell
climber
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It's better than last week but still pretty shitty. I'm going to the Meadows for the weekend to get away from it for a bit.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Just drove into Lone Pine - could see the smoke pouring through Kearsarge Pass - ugh.
Nice at Whitney though.
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Interesting to see how the fire crews are developing their burn lines to the north and south. Looks like they have just about finished them up, but still looks like this thing will be burning for a while.
Rough Fire perimeter.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mike mc... thanks for the update, map, firelines...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Driving back to Sin City this morn the smoke was down to Olancha.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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What is the latest on the Tenaya Fire? Any chance it will close the Tioga Road soon?
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WBraun
climber
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Any chance it will close the Tioga Road soon?
Doubt it .......
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Rough fire is over 100K acres now, with ~ 11,000 acres burned in the last 2 days. Thing appears to be really blowing up again, however it is still showing 31% containment. Kings Canyon NP is closed, and quite a few new evacuation warnings.
Here's hoping these high temps go away soon.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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The rough fire advance is a little misleading.
They did an encirclement loop of the southwest corner of the fire, creating a far-in-advance fireline running from Buck's Rock lookout, to the footprint of the 2010 Sheep fire, then enlarging it to over 500 feet wide, then allowing the fire to advance upon this strip unimpeded (very rough terrain, and couldn't have done much anyway.
They built these firelines, for the most part, on existing roads or trails, taking advantage of the terrain.
However, the "infill" burning of the enclosed land accounted for a lot of the increased acreage.....so it wasn't really uncontrolled fire, at least on that front of the fire. That enclosed area is now shown to be all burned---but it has not escaped the encirclement.
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Ken,
I noticed they had done that in the SW quad, but it looked like it hopped their secondary lines, and moved quite a ways west. Maybe I was just reading the info wrong. Either way, that's a big fire.
Thanks for the insight though, I appreciate it.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Mike, I saw the lines, also, and thought it was confusing. I think they decided to abandon those lands as hard to defend, and created the very wide pincher maneuvers, using the existing roads/trails....and sacrificing the land in-between.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Ya, most of the new acreage on the rough fire is due to controlled burns around the perimeter. However, it did jump the line on the SW side towards Dunlap and is not controlled in that area where it is also spreading fast. That's the cause for most of the new evacuations.
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Sep 12, 2015 - 04:07pm PT
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Wow!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 12, 2015 - 04:47pm PT
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Dean, cool shot, but you should credit the photog.
So, I would like to see some long term health study of hotshots' lungs. They should, at the
very least, get lifetime healthcare benefits of some sort.
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