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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jun 29, 2018 18:54:57 GMT -8
/ Smoke as a backpack consideration. A new world.
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jul 3, 2018 8:53:47 GMT -8
Lions Fire from Mammoth Crest 2018-07-01 photo by snownymph
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whistlepunk
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Post by whistlepunk on Jul 3, 2018 14:33:40 GMT -8
Smoke is not the new normal (gads! I really hate that term!).
We got spoiled during the latter half of the 20th century. Historically, fires burned all summer long every year.
Want more control burning? Want the fire agencies to let more backcountry fires burn? This is the tradeoff.
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Post by johntpenca on Jul 3, 2018 19:37:28 GMT -8
Where is the fire? West of the crest?
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jul 4, 2018 8:17:36 GMT -8
south of the Ritter Range and south of the old Rainbow Fire burn. Just SW of Devils Postpile NM. snownymph's photo is during a time that the smoke had dispersed quite well but the wind had switched and the smoke headed back to the NE. Smoky Bear Flat was really smoky later in the afternoon.
Today, near Bishop, I can't see the White Mountains and my sierra view is hazy.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 4, 2018 16:07:26 GMT -8
Smoke is not the new normal (gads! I really hate that term!). We got spoiled during the latter half of the 20th... Then why use it? Within our lifetimes fire season has expanded in the Sierra. Though I remember big burns in eastern San Diego county causing ash fall like a snowstorm on La Jolla at the coast in the late sixties.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 4, 2018 16:13:46 GMT -8
Just 4,000 acres but a widespread atmospheric impact. I recall last summer in Tuolumne some severely hazed skies from fires within the park of much smaller size.
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