Fire Season 2014

[John]

There is fire down in the San Joaquin canyon we saw east of Fish Creek Campground and Rock Creek Campground. It just started last night. On the west side of the canyon and looks like hard terrain to get into.

Yikes!
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4013/

[NateD]

Sounds like you spotted it before the Shuteye lookout did.

Not good.   

[John]

Sounds like you spotted it before the Shuteye lookout did.

Not good.   

We saw it at about 6AM and saw the first fire fighters responding as we were driving towards North Fork. The Fire Station by the orchard wasn't even stirring yet and they were about 15 minutes away.

[mungeclimber]

Fire was growing last I saw on the news.

[John]

Doubled in size to 2000 acres overnight!

[mungeclimber]

does this mean I'm not going to Soyo this weekend?   

[susan]

At first we hoped it was a controlled burn, except there were no signs about that and no fire fighting vehicles situated anywhere that we could see. Hardly any fire fighting vehicles heading that way yesterday morning. We could make out that the wide column of smoke originated way off Minarets on the west side of the SJR about halfway between Rock Creek Camp and Fish Camp from deeper in the canyon, but didn't even notice the fire until several minutes past Mile High. At that point it wasn't even 500 acres burned, though. A day later and it's over 4 times grown. Forecast, conditions, fires burning in Yosemite, not enough fire fighting resources... so grim.

[mungeclimber]

anyone for highway 108?  Though the foresta smoke will probably blow that direction anyways.


may sit by the pool again. lol

[YETI]

The EL portal fire is bad too.

Man, all the good spots are gonna be ashtrays very soon.

Best of luck to the Cal fire in this desperate time.

Ugghh, it is only august...

[John]

does this mean I'm not going to Soyo this weekend?   

You can still get down Beasore and apparently Grizzly Rd since it is closed at its southern end near Soda Springs CG. That leaves the Balls and even a long drive to the formations deeper down Minarets Rd are possible for now. Most of the ridge is still accessible minus the Eagles and Chiquito.

[mike a]

thanks a ton for the up dates john, i hope my beloved shuteye wiil be spared and the fire will be controlled soon!!!, i am stressing big time :-(

[mungeclimber]

Mike, if you go up midweek, any smoke updates would be very much appreciated!

[susan]

I know Mike, me too.... I'm stressing big time. It's awful.

[mike a]

hi rob, grahm this morning said super duper smokey in oakyhurst, that was his last up on his facebook report on the fire, and he said the fire jumped the road by the mile high over look and is heading up to the eagle beaks, grahm said he will give more info when he hears more news.

[mungeclimber]

thanks a bunch for the update!

Yeah, that's not good for any of us if it's jumped the road!  That's pretty much a straight shot up to the beaks if I recall correctly.