[pct-l] Plumas fire closures detail

[David Plotnikoff]

At 12:13 AM -0500 7/6/08, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>The Plumas National Forest July 3rd PCT closure order starting at 
>the Quincy-LaPorte road at mile 1235.6  is copacetic with the recent 
>posted pictures of the PCT closure order at that location.
>
>PCT is closed from 1235.6  to Hwy 36 at mile 1335.8  near Chester.


OK. I'm looking at the Plumas NF Web site fire information page at:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/plumas/

It appears, from "Pacific Crest Trail Closure Order 05-08" PDF, that 
the decision to EXTEND the closure from the south end of Bucks Lake 
Wilderness (Bucks Summit) to Quincy LaPorte Road was made only on 
July 4, by a gal named "Alice Carlton."

Up until now, I'd been carefully reading the official closure map 
("sections 1 and 2" Canyon Fire PDF), as running right *along* the 
PCT and allowing legal egress as far as Bucks Summit.

Seems pretty clear they've just tacked on the southern closure 
officially today.

This isn't an abstract concern for me. I'll be through there in a 
couple of weeks, probably. A shuttle from Quincy to Chester would be 
... most unpleasant.

DP