[Geysers] Fire Map

[Barger]

Greetings from Kitt Barger!
     We finally got our computer working (or should I say Thomas did).  I believe that the East Entrance was closed behind me, so I guess my decision to head directly for the entrance after our Fan and Mortar event cycle was a good one.  I took several pictures as I made my way out of the smokey area.  Smoke started to take over the sky at Sylvan Lake and by the time I started down from Sylvan Pass the air was thick with smoke.  The sun had disappeared behind a red-brown cloud that plunged the area into a false dusk.  I felt sorry for the two people who were still flagging the road (one at the beginning of the construction and another part way down).  I stopped to photograph a young bull moose just outside the East Entrance and man asked me if they had turned me around also.  I told him, "No, I just came out of the Park.)  I told him that if he was on a motorcycle then he wouldn't have wanted to breath that smoke.  I believe that I came through the gate at 1613.  Anyway, I'm home safe.  Keep posting!  I miss the Park already.  Kitt Barger
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TSBryan at aol.com 
  To: geysers at wwc.edu 
  Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:41 PM
  Subject: Re: [Geysers] Fire Map


  In a message dated 8/12/2007 6:19:19 PM Mountain Daylight Time, cross at bmi.net writes:
    I just looked at the fire information and am puzzled because there is no
    Columbine 2 listed and the Huckleberry fire is shown just under 10 miles
    east of the south entrance (not west of it).

  Be it Columbine 2 (which is what I was told by NPS) or Columbine 1, it obviously is rather serious as it has apparently burned out of the Columbine Creek drainage, over the ridge into the Middle Creek area... Kitt, did you make it through before the closure? (Probably not!)

  Scott Bryan





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