Mount Van Cott is now a very well formed cajun Hershey’s kiss. The fire’s now 500 acres, it’s been an airshow of at least two MD-80 tankers back and forth to Ogden all day. (A short trip, lotta flights, I stopped counting.)
Red Butte canyon to the right, Dry Creek to the left.
I do a yearly Solstice hike to Big Mountain, due east of the fire. I guess I should wait until the smoke clears up.
From the window near one of the patients, rooms. Little too close for comfort, but the patient said, there were wildland & firefighting folks standing 4-6 feet apart all the way across the hill, holding the line.
if there’s ever been a year for a complete firework restriction? But …
I ride my road bike to Big Mountain summit (by way of Emigration) many times each summer. I’m guessing each will be warmer, and stinkier, than usual this year. But what the hell, you can not beat that ride down, regardless of what it takes going up 
In Northern Sanpete County, I can see the outline of the mountains surrounding our house, but nothing more than that. Everybody is being advised to stay inside today and minimize time outdoors. Lots of particulate in the air. none of the fires are in the valley. All of this is coming over the hills from Nephi and Eureka.Ugh.
Supposed to be a cold front this weekend, hopefully that clears out a lot & puts a big dent in the Eureka fire.
But also hopeful we won’t get tons of smoke from the Great Northwest. A few years ago a cold front and rain just gave us the damp campfire smell.
But no thanks or reward or anything from Smokey Bear.
Gale-force winds and there is still a ton of smoke out there.
I’m starting to think we are all living in Mordor.
I’ve ridden along that Great Western Trail from the end of Skyline Drive about Bountiful to Big Mountain Pass. That is a great ride.
I’ve ridden that trail part way from each end, and then back, but never did the whole thing one way. I’ve been meaning to for years. Perhaps (if I can get back to town long enough from my house and projects in Paris, ID, sometime this summer), this is the year
It’s fairly easy to follow but in the middle it’s really overgrown.
I saw someone advocating on video that all fireworks be banned in Utah until further notice. I think that. makes a lot of sense to me. The whole doggone state is a tinder box right now. What do you all say?
The fireworks need to stay on the shelf this year. There is no need to tempt fate.
I agree about the fireworks. Unfortunately, we have learned all too well in the last ten years that there are a lot of folks who don’t give a damn about anyone else but themselves. And they don’t want to be deprived of their pyromania.
Bagley wins the internet today…
Murica.
hopefully this makes a little bit of a difference
It won’t. Every neighborhood will still sound like a war zone.
Yeah, and I hope I don’t end up reacting to it. I might need to get some deep sleep gummies.
I may have to sample my dogs sedatives (not really, but the idea did enter my feeble brain)
