[pct-l] Apache Fire Called in by PCT Hikers (with photos)

[Donna Saufley]

What's really sad is that when the fire was this small, it could have been
smothered (with dirt, a tarp, anything to cut off the oxygen) and put out
before it spread.  It's rare to have the opportunity to put out a fire when
it was this small.  

L-Rod

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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:21 PM
To: Postholer
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Apache Fire Called in by PCT Hikers (with photos)

He has more photos on the Idyllwild newspaper site:

http://www.towncrier.com/pctfire.html

I'm a little concerned by a comment on another journal
http://postholer.com/journal/viewJournal.php?sid=da3dfe057f680d3790ea97c08c7
d294a&entry_id=2125
that "the fire has almost certainly been accidently started by other
hikers being careless with their stove in the windy conditions" .
This photo http://www.towncrier.com/pctfire_files/pctfire.1.jpg makes that
questionable in my mind, given the stump looks too jagged to use as a
table and not in a good place to use as a windbreak for a stove. Perhaps
it was an old lightning strike fanned by new winds?

AsABat


On Wed, April 30, 2008 3:06 pm, Postholer wrote:
> Journal entry of hiker(s) who called the fire in:
> http://postholer.com/journal/viewJournal.php?entry_id=2132
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