Smoked out of Labor Day Camping trip
We headed up to Bass Lake for camping and a boating weekend. Got to Bass Lake Friday and everything was great clean air, could smell the trees and a great dinner at Ducey's. Got the boat ready to put ...
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sowego wrote:
We have had smoke from the western fires in our home location. Yosemite is over 1500 miles from here so no where can say they will be in the clear. Now the weather pattern has shifted and its not as hazy.
But 1 year ago we had our own fires to contend with. We had the Region 23 Complex fires to our north and east--4 fires within 100 miles of here, some just 5 miles away. On a few days the sky was just orange but most of the time the southern summer breezes kept the air clear at our house. At no time were we in real danger. Our worst nightmare will be if another lightning strike fire starts to our SW or West. So far this season we've been fire free but until we get more moisture we are all a bit on edge.
Be safe everyone and do me mindful that big fires will send smoke hundreds of miles so try to stay out of the path of that wind!
I grew up in SW Wyoming and had really bad smoke from Yellowstone, then again from Ft. Robinson not much later.
We get several smoke-days a year from both Colorado and New Mexico fires at our sticks & bricks; don't really have the option of packing up and leaving. Something we end up dealing with. We just run the HEPA filter at max during those times.
