Bald mountain Shaver lake is on fire.

Fire is taking Bald mountain down. Really sucks will take for ever to be nice and green again

 

https://abc30.com/creek-fire-grows-...-thousands-of-structures-threatened-/6410237/

 

Really really sad :/ i hope California learns to manage the forests

 

We know how. It’s about allocating money. Gotta prioritize. And nature hasn’t been a priority in many years.

 

That is a bummer. Looks like an amazing place.

 

Just got smoked out of our trip up in Mammoth today due to the hazardous conditions. Pretty gnarly fire!

 

Some had to rescued by chopper from that area

 

Record high temps, another fire, what else ya got 2020? Sh**, never mind, I don't wanna know.

 

Should I cancel my trip to Yosemite on the 19th? I was gonna stay in Oakhurst but the fire looks close to there. I've been to Shaver but not familiar with the area.

 

I had no idea how bad it really was until we got home and I dug into the news on it. Terrible.

 

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/reservations.htm
might want to check here for updates

 

How is the Big Bear area looking? For the San Gorgonio trip?

 

Its not even that, its the Nation Forest Service poor forestry policys brought on by the pressure from the granola eater groups. Fucking sickening.

 

ashes falling down here in LB ! skies are orange. not good.

 

yeah I was gonna go mountain biking there before they close the bike park but it's not looking good right now.

 

you ok in SC ? are the fires still raging ?

 

I’ve got family in Oakhurst. As of yesterday, Fire was threatening Bass Lake. Figured it’d be two days (so, tomorrow) to know if Oakhurst needs to evacuate. But I can’t imagine you’ll have vacation-y pastimes open to you by the 19th.

 

Problem is, all could be well now, and change in an hour on that dry, wooded mountain. True for all of California in these temperature conditions.

 

All good now, Thanks. 76% containment this morning. We voluntarily evacuated for a few days. The fire was 5 mi from us, smoke was terrible and burnt leaves were falling on our property.

 

A guy in Texas walked into a bar and said, "I'd like a Corona and 2 hurricanes." Bartender says, "That'll be $20.20."

 

All true!

Fires need fuel and spark. We chose to leave fuel all over the ground

 

This is just getting worse and worse. Just when we started seeing clear skies out here

I heard the SoCal fire was due to a gender reveal party. Idiots. It's bad here in Sacramento right now, ashes falling everywhere from the Fresno area fire.

 

Especially up there. Couple years ago some Beetle killed a bunch of the trees and there's fuel everywhere.

 

We got one day of riding in on Saturday, I could see the smoke creeping in later that afternoon and it was getting worse by nightfall. Woke up Sunday AM and it was super bad, so we decided to bail. Glad we did. There was an announcement today that the Inyo Natl Forest is closing at 5pm.

 

There are fires all over the place right now. I was in SD yesterday and had my truck covered in ashes from the Alpine fire. Got home to Moorpark last night and have ashes on my cars from the one near Santa Clarita.

@831Tun I was in the bay area 2 weeks ago and you guys, Gilroy, and Napa had fires going. I hope those are done by now.

 

Yup, here too. That’s what I meant most, @rockmup , when I talked about California not prioritizing environmental projects in budgets. The beetles have ravaged SoCal forests for years. Years of drought rendered the trees and other vegetation too weak to fight off the beetle. So we’ve had dead trees standing everywhere for 2 decades, and any rain or wind knocks them down. Fires ravage everything. Many of us have great ideas for how the dead wood could have been removed and utilized, but— whether due to misguided environmentalists or lack of fiscal planning for necessary forest management— I can’t see a remedy at this point. Humans f’ing up the planet.

 

Dang man, you've visited more of the fires than Gavin Newsome.

 

Coincidence?!

I think not. @Fire Bug

 

I understood what you meant. I grew up in the Sierras, Twain Harte and Truckee its been going on since the late 60's