EISPIRATEN

This looks generic, but we're looking at 2 named peaks AND a benchmak.

Took time to figure out the "middle distance"

Rattlesnake

I've been on the ridge S and N or Lookout, and it wasn't burnt. Caltopo says there was a fire in 2008 below, towards Bear Flat, so maybe that's where that was. In any case, it's the same "trail". Check this out:


It's obvious where I am, but what trail am I on? No cheating!

Is anybody getting phone warnings about evacuating Camp Colby? I guess this thing is headed that way.

Thanks for linking these, they look great! Not the hellscape we all feared. Yes!

Summary: tapatalk is run by a bunch of clowns.

My recollection is that the Station Fire exploded in size on day 2 or day 3, and then just kept slowly going for a month. The last few weeks were in the San Gabriel Wilderness somewhere, so they weren't trying too hard to put it out. The bobcat fire... TBD!

..... Likewise, we need a radical policy of firing hillsides and canyons, before they become an existential danger to human life and property. Or we could make a radical policy of not building homes in areas that are prone to burning. I'm guessing the price of fire insurance has jumped in the last ...

The immediate cause doesn't really matter. Currently the conditions in all of the Western US are very favorable to fires, so if it wasn't Edison, it would have been something else. Lightning. Or a gender reveal. Or a vehicle. Better forest management and more rain would have helped...

HikeUp wrote: ↑Etch-a-sketch time...Screenshot_2020-09-17 Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map Flightradar24.png

He's doing this: https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/nirops/

Whoa. So what happens now? Is there brush in the desert?

I feel like I'm watching a train wreck.

Is that Islip Saddle in the photo? Looking NW?

The Santa Anas blow to the South, which would push the Northern front back towards the already-burned areas, right?

Caltopo is now saying pretty convincingly that buckhorn is/was burning. AND that another large front is headed towards Chilao from the South. Anybody want to guess where the North front will stop? There's no longer any obvious boundary, or human structures where the firefighters will make a stand. T...

Jeremiah had a really good idea. It could be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_shelter

It's not on fire yet. Those orange blobs on the road are people/vehicles thankfully. I just looked at the photos again. Click on the second one to get the full size. That looks a whole lot like fire. Maybe a little flare-up or something. Haven't see any like it for a little bit. Hopefully they'll t...

I want to say that I looked up that old trail on the old aerials, and it didn't climb the ridge. Rather it traversed over to cattle canyon, and then up to cow saddle. I think.

This is bad...

Oh, crap. Is the observatory on fire?

walker wrote: ↑Another chasm of doom view from Mt. Harvard and Mt. Wilson right now - looks like the next few hours will be decisive for the observatory

I've been staring at it. Do we know how close it actually is?

As some of you maybe noticed, just looking at a post (ANY tapatalk post) is a very computationally-intensive activity. On my machine it eats up ~ 1/3 of a full core, which wastes power, and makes my laptop toasty warm, and less responsive to other tasks. This is just me looking at an already-loaded ...

Booooo. Adams Pack Station facebook page has an update. The relevant text: I am just re-posting what I posted on our cabin owners page.. I really am unable to say much else at the moment. "Good early morning friends. So much happened yesterday and I know emotions have been both hopeful and grim...

So I'm hazy on the intent here. The last few days the fire was slowly creeping down the hillside. I don't know how difficult putting these out really is, but this thing was moving SO slowly. It couldn't be put out before burning Chantry Flat, and now threatening Mt Wilson? Was it the plan to fight i...

The incident page, with actual text: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7152/

I just figured out how to get flightradar24 to give you altitudes, which you can use to figure out where the tankers made their drops (the plane descends, makes the drop, and then climbs back up). On the most recent pass it dropped right around the ridge-top E of buckhorn. That makes me think it has...

The red dots are very accessible and easily interpretable, but not entirely correct sometimes. Do you mean that the satellite misdetected fire activity? We're talking about the imprecise satellite fire reports on caltopo, I think. AW had a good point: if you select specific satellites, it tells you...

Right. caltopo can display the GOES data as well, and the pixels are indeed giant.

Hah. Yeah. How dare they. Something definitely IS going on in that area right now. AIRATT52 is flying back and forth in an arc: Twin Peaks, Waterman, Buckhorn, Islip, Windy Gap