Ack! Santiam on Fire!

[iain]

wow great pic. hope everything works out for the best.

[steepconcrete]

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?

[iain]

not sure on the number, but it's one of the ones closer to the road. good news to hear, thanks for the update. I'm sure they're watching that stuff carefully. Will be strange to check that place out after this all dies down. Basically both burns sound like they are running wild at the moment with little containment.

[Sphinx]

steepconcrete said:

 

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.

 

Dammit. Hoodoo is an eyesore. "We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn, burn motherfucker, burn!"

[steepconcrete]

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.

[Anna]

I feel kinda bad for saying this but my inner pyro is creeping out....

 

That pic is making me drool!

[Dan_Harris]

Drove up to McMinnville yesterday. The air from Roseburg north to Salem is the worst I have ever seen it in Oregon. Could hardly see the hills. It looked like LA area air. I saw that Santiam Pass is still closed. What is Happening with the fire?

[Anna]

www.nifc.gov/news/sitreprt.pdf

 

This report has everything you need to know about the fires in the nation. Status, how big, how many crews on it, how much it costs...

 

The santiam pass fire is called the B&B Complex. My old crew is up there right now...be safe out there guys!

[steepconcrete]

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.

[Dan_Harris]

Thanks for the link Anna. What a difference a day makes. Drove home yesterday and saw that the pass is open. The smokey skies were much better, only bad around Eugene. I'm beat, home to McMinnville and back in 43 hours.

[iain]

those cabins are worth more than just the materials. they have a lot of history behind them, way back when the USFS gave out land to get people into the wilderness. thanks for the update.

[steepconcrete]

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...

[murraysovereign]

Up to a point, it costs just as much to build a fire line on one side of the houses as it does on the other side. So they may have had to work a little quicker to build it on the windward side, and may have had to put a few more resources into it, but the savings from building it 500 yards further downwind probably wouldn't have been huge.

 

Regardless, it's good to hear a few happy endings coming out of this fire season.

 

to fire crews everywhere - you people

[iain]

 

Looks like a great time to go climb Three Fingered Jack

[iain]

Highway 20 was closed again today for nuclear testing

[gapertimmy]

that smoke plume was frikken wicked yesterday PM. I walked outside and it looked like b-top had an ash cloud coming out of it. This morning it is no longer around.

 

camp sherman got evacuated again though

[Ursa_Eagle]

so is the smoke subsiding around broken choss? or does it fluctuate with the time of day and the winds?

[gapertimmy]

skies are pretty clear today, the smoke really wasn't near the 3 sisters wildernes, the plume just looked like it was coming from that direction from my location.

 

a army chopper just landed in the parking lot, looks like some important dude was getting a tour of the fire, kinda neato

[texplorer]

Check out this aerial View of the fire

[TIGHE]

texplorer said:

Check out this aerial View of the fire

 

 

[bunglehead]

I was up on the pass yesterday. From east of Lost lake to right before the hoodoo turnoff is pretty bad. Potato hill is ash. The summit is spotty. There are some green spots left, but if the fire got the roots, they're toast. Also, the area around Suttle Lake is completely burned out. The woods were still smoking yesterday afternoon in the rain, and still smoldering hotspots were visible from the road.

[steepconcrete]

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

[kurthicks]

EUGENE, OREGON, September 18, 2003

 

Effective immediately, the following areas are once again accessible to the public:

 

Pamelia Limited Entry Area, (Pamelia Lake, Grizzly Peak, Hunts Cove, Coyote and Shale Lakes). Visitors will need a LEA permit;

 

Jefferson Park Area;

access to principle north and south climbing routes for Mt. Jefferson;

 

 

finally.

 

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/news/2003/09/030918willamette.shtml