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Andrew F
Trad climber
Sunnyvale, 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.
Anybody have info on the fatality? I descended Tenaya on Saturday. We met a bunch of folks on the bus who were going down it too.
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Gearhead
Trad climber
Novato Ca
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I did not recognize the persons partner from the bus. It looked like from where the CHP helicopter was hovering,that they had gone down an area near the Steep Slab descent, skiers left of where we went down.
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skitch
climber
East of Heaven
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I was climbing with a toulumne sar guy, he got the call about the hiker around 3:30 on Saturday.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Back to the fire.
I was driving down 49 yesterday through Columbia and saw a CalFire fixed wing tanker taking off and heading southeast. Wondered where he was going.
I didn't see any smoke from anywhere along Hwy 49 as far south as Coulterville.
EDIT: re-read an earlier post. Is a managed natural fire that got away. Mother Nature gets her way again.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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very windy yesterday, bailed off our climbing itinerary (such as it was) early because of the strong gusts...
the fire went from a wisp of smoke to a huge tower in a matter of hours...
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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A controlled burn/management fire in September of a really bad drought year?
YGBSM! (you gotta be sh**ing me) NOT a controlled burn. It was a naturally occurring fire (lightning) that they decided to let burn which is there policy and is a good one. Why would they decide to stop those in drought years? That's when they were most prevalent before man started interfering. The real question should be, "Why have they decided to intervene now?"
egit:khanom beat me to it
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Damn Supertopo downsampling... I'll need to just wait to upload my pics elsewhere before linking to them here.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Of course I'm an internet speculator... but it would be interesting to know the reasoning behind it. Good question. Backcountry traveler safety?
September is prime back country season and of course this is directly threatening the JMT.
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Fletcher
Gym climber
A very quiet place
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Mother Nature gets her way again.
This mom is pulling way more than her share. Where the heck is Father Nature? Never heard a peep out of the guy all these years... asleep on the couch watching some ball game? Dad needs to shape up and start pulling his weight.
;-)
Hope everyone involved stays safe. Stuff's gonna burn at some point!
Eric
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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I'm not a fire guy, but my thoughts:
Managing natural fires involves some constraints in what a fire is allowed to do. It would be a large leap of thinking to believe that at this point the fire is being managed. It is out of control, and so, needs to be brought back under control.
There is also a political aspect to this: thinking back to the huge fire in Yellowstone, if this fire were to cause big-time damage (even if only to the forest) through spreading, careers would end, the Park Service would have egg on it's face.
So, full-court press.
Why do they have 9 tankers? Because they couldn't get 10.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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it was not me!
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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it's getting doused pretty good now by ma nature.
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Adamame
climber
Santa Cruz
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2700 acres now
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I bomb the blamers and the flamers.
I'm Tanker 911.
I send them all to hell, for sure.
They'll never get to heaven.
Hooray for cloudy weather today!
But it's clearing
And it may not last...
They'd better catch up to it
And do it fast.
--Warrant Teddy
edit: Moosie, go up there and drool on the f!cker, OK? And pick me up on the way! :0)
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Eighty-five hikers and climbers were also evacuated from the summit of Half Dome by helicopters from the California Highway Patrol, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, and CAL FIRE. Doggone it, I've always wanted a helicopter ride.
Just not in a sling.
Good rain map. At least it's not accompanied by any significant lightning.
And please, Mother Nature, send some of that wet stuff over this way. (not at all likely)
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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we spotted hikers on top of the Clouds Rest summit while all this was going on... I suspect the target of the fire suppression drops was to divert the fire from the hiking trail area, I have no way of knowing that...
there were two spotter aircraft and many tanker runs, one spectacular one (sorry no shot, but you'd have needed a telephoto) where two laid down their load one after the other, and then pulled out, one banking left, the other right as seen from Olmstead Pt.
wild stuff...
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john hansen
climber
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In this day and age, some one must have got some footage from the top while the evacuations were happening.
Been checking Y tube but only news clips so far.
That would be a cool ride..
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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PYRO.... it was not me!
Ha.... not this time.
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dave729
Trad climber
Western America
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Yes! Its the universal dream of climbers to have a helo
arrive to fly us down and avoid the walk back
to the vehicle.
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