Smoke around Bear Lakes Basin?

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Smoke around Bear Lakes Basin?

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Hey All,
Has anyone heard of fires affecting the Bear Lakes Basin? I read there were some people who got lost around Italy Pass due to smoke issues. It may be a bit early to be asking this as I'm not headed there until late August.
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Hi Sctopdx,

Welcome to HST! They should easily have this wildfire under control by the end of
August, let's just hope that there will not be any others.
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.

Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
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Re: Smoke around Bear Lakes Basin?

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Hi Sctopdx,

Welcome to HST! They should have this wildfire under control by the end of
August, let's just hope that there will not be any others.
Professional Sierra Landscape Photographer

I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.

Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
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Re: Smoke around Bear Lakes Basin?

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They are reporting 45% containment now...

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3552/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I was on a car camping trip with grandkids last week in SEKI and tho annoying, it didn't seem thick enuf there to cause real problems. The fire is near Huntington tho to folks around Bear Basin would have more of it....
http://ndeewoods.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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