I thought I saw a plume on my flight from SFO to LAX last night. It sounds like the USFS is being reasonable in their approach to let the fire do its work.

I was climbing at the Needles and Dome Rock this weekend and got a good eyeball of the fire, which increased in size over the weekend. Smoky in the morning but then clear in the afternoon as an inversion layer (or whatever it was; I'm no meteorologist) capped alot of the smoke over the burn area. Really good views of it from the Needles Lookout. Wish I had a picture to post. Hopefully they'll get it contained soon.

They found an new, (old) undocumented cabin.

willytinawin wrote:They found an new, (old) undocumented cabin.

That's cool!

From here in Visalia it looks like the smoke is really affecting the Mineral King area..

Drove from Bishop to LA yesterday and the Owens Valley was choked with smoke. I usually don't have problems with air quality but I was sneezing up a storm. It's a good idea to let nature run her course.