Really sad. 19 years ago tomorrow I sat atop Mt. Tallac. Photo is looking south over Gilmore Lake to Pyramid Peak on the left. Fallen Leaf Lake is just east and Lake Tahoe is to the north.
"These weather conditions will allow the fire to become active early Tuesday morning and continue burning throughout the night. Fire Behavior analysts expect spotting distances will again be more than 0.75 miles"
So sorry to see this. My son introduced me to the Desolation Wilderness in early June this year, and while it was fantastic for early season hiking, I couldn’t help noticing how extremely vulnerable to fire it was. Same for the city of South Lake Tahoe; many trees right next to houses, no defensible space over a large area.
Has the fire even burned any of Desolation Wilderness? Looks like just a bit of the southern part. Based on foretasted winds, the fire looks to be heading towards Heavenly Ski area, and after that across the state line into Nevada, but Desolation Wilderness appears to be mostly fine to me.
Crews are getting exhausted and clumsy from it. That's why it's important for them to have a couple days off. He had 4 more to go before time off. Damn.
Don't know what time he fell but I've always thought of the wee hours of the morning--2AM on night shift, as the time that stupid begins. Not stupid in a bad way. We get tired and that causes stupidity to kick in and accidents occur. That's the time where crew banter is important. Trivia questions like name the all the kids on The Brady Bunch. That helps a bit to stay more alert.
Hope he heals up.
On another note, I hope tree nurseries are gearing up.
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-------------- What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
I did wildland firefighting for FS and NPS and one study showed most accidents were in the eleventh hour of the shift. Many night shifts in the dark someone would moan -Beware the eleventh hour.
I did wildland firefighting for FS and NPS and one study showed most accidents were in the eleventh hour of the shift. Many night shifts in the dark someone would moan -Beware the eleventh hour.
I have always called it the Stupid Hour. We put in some 30 hour shifts and this was years ago, and you really get stupid doing that.
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-------------- What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
1985, Pyramid Peak, South Lake Tahoe in the distance
Overnight, the fire burned up Pyramid Creek and very close to, if not into, Puzzlr's image on the upper right edge. From looking at satellite images, it followed contiguous strips of oak brush and tree copses to get where it is now. From there, though, it will have to start spotting into the really barren granite areas in the middle of Puzzlr's image.
I am no longer as confident that it will stop. There is no precedent for this set of conditions in this location, in recorded history, anyway.
The more wooded areas in the top of the image are in the path of fire right now as well. I think that is the part of the Desolation Wilderness that Malachai Constant was referring to, and yeah, it is likely to all burn. There is more PCT in there being scorched.
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-------------- Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
There was a hiatus yesterday for South Lake Tahoe but now it looks like it has flared up again. It seems to have jumped Echo Lake, covered Meyers, advanced to the Airport. As predicted it is now in the wooded area abundant Lake Tahoe and Falling leaf lake. I am afraid Desolation Wilderness will be an appropriate appellation for the whole unit.
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Winds seem to have eased up at least. No real rain the forecast, although there may be a disturbance a week out. Humidity is getting higher at night down there. They are doing a good job of corralling it and keeping it away from most of the town. It is amazing that Sierra at Tahoe ski area was saved. I think it was the snowmaking equipment spraying water.
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