EISPIRATEN

This one got pretty close to my house, but now it's moving towards Fish Canyon. Hwy. 39 is closed again.

Damn. Fires all over SoCal right now. Glad they got the guy who started this one.

Maybe Taco's dream of hiking the Silver-Fish road will become a reality after all.

dima wrote: ↑Maybe Taco's dream of hiking the Silver-Fish road will become a reality after all.

I don't see a map of the burned area yet, but if it's going up Roberts Canyon you might be right.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6961

Fun Fact - Roberts Canyon is named after Henry Roberts, East Fork miner, who owned a stage coach service in Azusa. When miners would get off the Santa Fe train they'd walk over to his stables across the tracks and catch a ride up to Eldoradoville. Ralph Follows had a stable right next to his. His house was right at the mouth of the canyon.

Sean wrote: ↑

dima wrote: ↑Maybe Taco's dream of hiking the Silver-Fish road will become a reality after all.

I don't see a map of the burned area yet, but if it's going up Roberts Canyon you might be right.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6961

I've been looking at the caltopo "fire activity" data:
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=34.1915 ... a=modis_mp

Not super-precise but (in theory) real-time and is reporting what is actually on fire, as seen by satellites. I want to say the reported area was South of where it is now, so the Silver-Fish road going around Silver Mt was probably burned.

It’s probably burned. I was thinking of that.

What’s containment on it now?

I may have hiked through the remains of Roberts cabin when hiking out from the first descent of Winking Mummy Gulch. Some cacti and stuff around a foundation. Also tried to descend Roberts Canyon once before, but there was so much brush my buddy Jeff and I ran out of time. We had bushwhacked up Silverfish. It involved lots of crawling.

Taco wrote: ↑ What’s containment on it now?

19% containment. Still spreading west and north. It burned more of the road yesterday.

So it topped over the ridge at Pine Mountain. I wonder if they saved the facilities located on top.

HikeUp wrote: ↑So it topped over the ridge at Pine Mountain. I wonder if they saved the facilities located on top.

They said they did. Apparently the firebreaks worked for that facility.

I was hiking up on the Dawson Peak trail last thu. when this started, maybe 12 miles northeast. It seemed far enough away, but given that I had to hike towards the fire, back to my campsite, it had me worried enough that I went back up to the ridge to get reception and call the fire dept. The lady I talked to was very patient but had also clearly fielded a million phone calls by that point, lol. (people on the 210 must have seen it 20 mins before I did)

Was taken aback by how quickly a huge smoke cloud formed—was like a bomb went off, I'd never seen a fire just after it started like that (i'm new-ish to CA ).
Looking past Iron mtn.
There wasn't much wind for a couple hours so the smoke was fairly contained, but closer to sundown the wind picked up and it got pretty smoky where I was.

Made for a nice sunset, anyway. Next day the wind shifted and I didn't see any more of it until I hiked out and drove past it on the way home.

The crews were working toward two major goals Wednesday: reinforcing the northern edge of the fireline along Rincon Red Box Trail, and completing a firebreak along the northwestern shoulder division between Fern Canyon and Cold Springs Canyon, to tie together the two western edges of the fire.

SGVT

Heck..Fern canyon needs clearing out doesn't it? lol

HikeUp wrote: ↑Heck..Fern canyon needs clearing out doesn't it? lol

aka Darlin Donna Falls! Leave those ferns alone lol.

Taco wrote: ↑It’s probably burned. I was thinking of that.

What’s containment on it now?

I may have hiked through the remains of Roberts cabin when hiking out from the first descent of Winking Mummy Gulch. Some cacti and stuff around a foundation. Also tried to descend Roberts Canyon once before, but there was so much brush my buddy Jeff and I ran out of time. We had bushwhacked up Silverfish. It involved lots of crawling.

Is this the cabin in question?

https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=34.1811 ... 3&z=17&b=t

dima wrote: ↑

Taco wrote: ↑It’s probably burned. I was thinking of that.

What’s containment on it now?

I may have hiked through the remains of Roberts cabin when hiking out from the first descent of Winking Mummy Gulch. Some cacti and stuff around a foundation. Also tried to descend Roberts Canyon once before, but there was so much brush my buddy Jeff and I ran out of time. We had bushwhacked up Silverfish. It involved lots of crawling.

Is this the cabin in question?

https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=34.1811 ... 3&z=17&b=t

Negativo, the remains I found were only a few hundred feet from the mouth of the canyon.