steepconcrete

^^the photos e-rock posted looks like Grant Gunderson photos^^

attached is a pic from the top of hoodoo, Sept. 14

Dude, don't get me wrong. I am very happy and glad that they gave the cabins so much effort. I was just thinking out loud about how much that must have cost. The cabin next to my shed, #1 (the one in the foreground of the attachment in my prior post) , was the first one up there and is still owned by the lady who built it with her brother 60 some years ago. Dude, so much history, when people on the lift find out I have one I hear all kinds of storys come out of the woodwork. #13 (I think) is for sale, asking $99,000, so on second thought I guess they are worth a lot...

I just got photos from the USFS. All the cabins made it. They cut down and catted everything in order to save em. It looks like they are on the fire line. I bet it cost more money to keep 'em from burning than they are worth all together.

here is a update for ya Dr. Flash.... The Santiam cam is out, everything is sprayed with retardent, trees are cut and bulldozed away from the cabins. It is doubtful they will make it. click on the picture page under the map. http://www.nuggetnews.com/fire/welcome_fire.html Pics of an nuked Potato Hill from noon today, one with flames 300' high.

update from a e-mail I got- "I just off the phone with Jim Follis at Hoodoo. At 1800 they have three cats working to open the firebreak behind the cabins, knock down trees near cabins, and remove brush from around cabins. According to Jim, the FS has placed a high priority to the cabins and to the Hoodoo area. Jim also said the fire which burned in Sheep Springs yesterday and last night is slowly creeping toward Easy Rider chair. It is presently about 500 feet away from the top of the chair. One of the cats was going out the nordic trails to work on containing the spread toward ER." What cabin # is your friends Dr. Flash?

My family also has a cabin. I bacically live up there in the winter. The last we got word the cabins are still there, and they have the biggest structural crew working on em as of last night. Check out this BIG (sorry) pic of Potato Hill, in paticular the back of Boars Tooth. It is from yesterday, I think/hope. Just a mile west of the cabins. I don't see how they could survive. The trees are so dence and the cabins are so dry. If the pic is from today we could be toast. Hope we have time to rebuild. Hoodoo has 50,000 gallons of water stored for this. The new lodge is made out of carbon fiber with a latex roof. There is a little wood, but not much. It would be hard to burn it.