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mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
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Aug 28, 2013 - 09:46pm PT
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Dingus, for most of the week the cool early, early morning air and little or no breeze has resulted in heavy, heavy smoke blanketing all of Jamestown and Sonora and the whole hill up to past Twain Harte (bad stuff) at daylight. Then, most days by mid-afternoon, breezes have blown most of the smoke to the northeast, resulting in almost clear skies in these same areas and huge plumes in that direction.
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Strider
Trad climber
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Aug 28, 2013 - 09:50pm PT
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Here are some pictures from Tuesday when I drove in. Also got the call that I MIGHT be allowed to go home on Friday to relieve the guy we have there and before they reopen to locals. We will see if it works out.
Smoke plume from evacuation day
Headed back in a few days later, the view at Rim if the World where the fire started
On hwy 120 on the way in
Bridge on 120 at Rainbow pools
Fire crews at work on Evergreen rd...
To stop this...
Ackerson Meadow untouched and Bald Mountain getting a workout
Dozer on Aspen Valley rd
Peach Growers still there
Between Dimond O and The Lodge
Still there
-n
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 28, 2013 - 10:57pm PT
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hey there say, QITNL...
oh my, i saw a small article about that drone thing, oh my...
say, on a side note, that i thought WAS VERY CUTE,
it was written about THIS WAY, at the end of the
article:
It's already helped, alerting firefighters to at least one flare-up way earlier than normal, reports AP.
awwwww, :)
:) i thought i was most 'unperfected-journalism-wise', as to saying stuff like:
'way earlier' (which i use such, as)
and way often, too, i thus add...
though it is far too early to tell if i say it far too less,
if i will sound far more fetching, ;))
well, it is way early in the eve still, so i hope to
visit back, soon :)
just wanted to make sure folks like khanom, etc. are still
okay...
and, posting a huge thank you again, for all those in harms way, that are working so hard...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 28, 2013 - 11:05pm PT
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hey there say, strider!!!! oh my... just seeing the fire makes you get those 'danger' twinges that startle the brain, :O
far more real, to see what you have SEEN... we just see smoke, :O
i am so very glad, too, that i can now see the evergreen lodge...
plays a nice part in my life, though i never get there...
god bless to all, thanks for these great photos...
hope you get to go back, for 'your turn' as it seems it will be...
:)
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Aug 28, 2013 - 11:08pm PT
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east side into the granite,
west side has 12 blade width lines cut,
north side slowing down,
south side will hit sparse fuel in a while with good wind direction,
should be 53% containment by tomorrow,
the Clavey is ultra remote above the T river, and a prime location for hooch farming due to water access,
most likely a small operation which means local farmers,
cartel farmers are too good to start fires, don't want caro quintero on their back,
this is a low water year for boaters which means that the clavey was un-runnable when the fire started
so kayakers are off the hook,
in fact, dreamflows has it charted as too low to run for the last 2 years>
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Aug 29, 2013 - 01:38am PT
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thx for the pics Nick
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Aug 29, 2013 - 09:59am PT
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WTF-
Re: the "landing gear" warning is an automatic recording to alert the pilot on a final approach for landing that the gear isn't down.
A wheels-up landing is damaging to the airplane, but not nearly as bad as damage to the pilot's reputation and ego.
"There are 2 kinds of pilots who fly RG (retractable gear) airplanes--those who have landed wheels-up, and those who are going to..."
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Aug 29, 2013 - 11:12am PT
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eKat- ^^^^^
That screeching female voice does what it's supposed to do...get your attention!
It beats the He** out of a landing gear alarm buzzer in the headphones, though. The retractable-gear trainer at the flight school in Casper is presently hors de combat due to a dunce student retracting the landing gear during a touch and go instead of the flaps... Stupid is as stupid does...
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Aug 29, 2013 - 12:00pm PT
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Hey Nick... Thanks so much for keeping us updated on Evergreen, Mather, Sunset Inn, & Tawonga , really appreciate it.....
Thanks for putting up pictures too...do you have more?
also....Do you know who owns Peach growers and A. Meadows? i have always wondered about the property owners in those areas.
saludos
nita.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Aug 29, 2013 - 12:48pm PT
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strider-- thabnks for the pix.
q: my neighbor was on the saddle when paper cabin ridge went nuclear afternoon of the 25th. they got out just in time-- big air support basically saved the line that afternoon. only heard the short version, sure ill hear the long version with beer revisions soon enough. assuming that the line jolds.
last i heard, the cabin is still there.
glad they feel good enough to post the briefing map. yesterday's transpo map was already circulating on fb, so maybe they figured they may as well.
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Strider
Trad climber
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Aug 29, 2013 - 01:33pm PT
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Nita, Peach Growers a bunch of cabins owned by different people (most of whom have owned their family cabin for generations). The Forest Service owns the actual land and homeowners have a 99 year lease type of thing. You are also heavily restricted on how large the cabin is, it has to be the right color, you are not allowed to live there and can only really use it as a summer cabin. There are a bunch of other rules as well.
Aspen Valley is in the park and I imagine rules are the same as Foresta and Yosemite West. But to be honest I don't know much about them
-n
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Aug 29, 2013 - 02:22pm PT
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Strider, i was actually wondering about home ownership of Ackerson Meadows and cabin ?...Is that a historic name ?.......I love that meadow..and former view...
Thanks for the above answer on Peach growers.... Hey, AspenDoug...Are the Aspen valley cabins ownership similar to Foresta and Peach Growers?
Sorry for the thread drift.
Strider,.....more pictures?
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Strider
Trad climber
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Aug 29, 2013 - 02:59pm PT
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Ahhh, I see Nita. There are two separate pieces of land around there. The Erickson ranch is the area of land that has a barn and house right next to the road. That land is owned by the Erickson family for years! As the story goes, back in the day, at one time the Ericksons could run their cattle from the Central Valley to Yosemite all on their own land. Doubt that was true but probably not far. I am also pretty sure their land is under the Williamson Act. The Act is complicated but essentially the State agrees to lower your property taxes dramatically and you promise to use your land for agricultural purposes only. It is meant to keep open spaces and prevent development.
Now Ackerson meadow has the lonely cabin and windmill in the middle of the meadow, the Ericksons sold that a few years ago and my understanding it will become a nature preserve. That meadow is Great Gret Owl habitat and there are some Indian grinding holes on some of the rocks. I know for a fact Ackerson is under Williamson. It would be a permitting nightmare to build anything there because of the natural and cultural resources.
I do have more pics but I need better Internet to upload them. It tools me 3 hours yesterday to get those pictures up. Hopefully I will be at the Evergreen tomorrow and can send a few more out.
-n
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Aug 29, 2013 - 05:02pm PT
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A main problem at this stage is the S and SE flank. The wind is shifting to the NW and NE tonight ,and to NW on Friday. We'll see if their lines down there hold fairly well to keep this thing from making more of a run in that S direction.
Otherwise the more this thing is contained overall the more resources they can pour into trouble areas.
Massive kudos to the firefighters who have , and still continue to battle, this truly epochal wildfire.
The entire nation has been watching, and both residents and firefighters deserve all our respect and admiration.
And that's a fact...
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Aug 29, 2013 - 05:13pm PT
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That was a good move putting those granite domes on the eastern flank! They should think about that to the south.
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mr p
Big Wall climber
eastside ca
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Aug 29, 2013 - 05:42pm PT
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the perfect storm of fire.. hopefully they can catch it / the south flank at sr 120 tioga road .. this wasn't a question of if but when all the best to the fire crew et. al.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 29, 2013 - 09:12pm PT
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hey there say, khanom and all... jus checking in to see how everyone is...
*strider, love the history as to some of fire-area lands...
and timid: love the great grey sighting!
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