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Thanks for taking us a long and boy an I envious or you guys----nothing but smoke here! I'm inspired now, so I'm going to try again to get out of the smoke and head up to Lakeview then east to the Sheldon and south to Austin and the Monitor Range-wish me luck and no smoke/fires! Nice and...

Yep-even the Modoc NF closed down! After 3 days of clear skies, the smoke here in the Honey Lake Valley came back with a vengeance yesterday. What is really scary, go pull up the fs incident web map page-then you get a good picture of what we are facing -and the real "official" old fire...

Sure is getting harder and harder to find a safe place to play out there! I don't think I can remember a fire season like this one and expect this one will only get worse before it gets better! Smoke

Are you sure! Yesterday, walked the dog in cut-offs and a "T" shirt and temp in the 90's; today I wore long pants and a sweat shirt and it was in the 60's with a very cold and brisk north wind! By Friday, it is supposed to be in the 80's. I'm not really sure what season it is any more but that...

What can you say-for allot of reasons, this has been a long version of "A bad day at Black Rock" or what ever that old Spencer Tracy movie was called!! Even up here in our usual tranquil corner of NE Ca/NW Nevada and South Central Oregon, we had more than our usual share of both natural and...

Cough cough, cough! I had to turn around and come back home early today because the smoke got to thick and unhealthy to continue my morning dog walk! Yep, things are getting pretty bad these days, when you can't go anywhere, not even up your own hill, because of the fires and smoke to walk...

It seems like the hi-lift discussion comes up allot here! My first rule about using a handy man is the one that old age and many years of experience has taught me: unless you can help it, don't go where you can get stuck, in the first place ! That said, don't use one unless you have been...

Fires to the east of me, fires to the west of me, fires to the north of me, fires to the south of me (many for the 2nd, or 3rd time this year)-and all sending nasty unhealthful smoke right here into my front yard! The fire to the SE just cut 395, so no more runs to Reno. So I ran away from all...

Generally speaking I carry more than I'll ever need in my many emergency kits-but I always say having is always better than not having when you need something! Well, as discussed here before, just replaced my old Spot2 with a Spot X. I carry all the usual getting "Unstuck Stuff" like handyman...

You know teledork, when I first posted this thread, I thought about situations like what happened to you. I mean, with the Spot 10(not the spot 2)-if you had someone to send it to-you could set up some a system when you were in danger, where you could you could text a simple code-like "D" maybe...

Boy, Mark you are getting civilized, but it sure looks nice and enjoy! Smoke

Wow-nice TR, nice country, never been in that part of the world, so glad you took us there. Rafting, fishing, even bears, but the golf course, don't know about that :P ! Again Thanks for taking us along! Smoke

Okay, after many years of using my trusty old Spot 2 GPS tracker, the idea of being able to text from anywhere finially won me over. It may be more expensive than what I like, but when you throw in the help "SOS" button, the super 3AAA type come and get you anywhere coverage, the "I'm Okay"...

Well if things go right, by mid week I'll be either over in the general area you two were in on your run up here in this neck of the world and/or hiding in some undisclosed cg (fire restrictions and red flag warnings may keep me from dry camping) somewhere between here and the Sheldon NWF. I...

I carry just a standard type porta potty, and have a 20 gal tank w/an additional 6 in the hot water tank and a 5 gal. plastic water can and a few canteens-and yes I am so glad that Stan talked me into getting it and I love the hot water tank, each time I wash those dishes and have to wash my...

The South Warner Wilderness is neat, off the beaten path and usually not to crowded; lot's of folks like to camp at one of the bordering CG's and then overnight into one of the lakes for some good fishing! Last time I was at Pepperdine was right after I had some noninvasive surgery on my knee...

Thank you for posting this. It seems that we all have to have some type of plan to survive out there these days. I'm a retired male BLM employee and remember .when we first began to get lot',s of female field employees in the late 70's and how my older bosses reacted to the sudden infusion...

Power is back on----and just in time to read this latest adventure. Sure wish I was our there with you guys instead of sitting in this smelly smoky place, but guarding the homestead comes first. Those types of walls seem to be a hall mark of the Northern Basin, some books say the Chinese or...

Boy you guys did it again-you found some place in my back yard that I have not been to yet :D! Now I have to go to Vee Lake once the smoke clears up here-how were the mosquitoes up there anyway? Enjoyed your TP.. Have you guys ever taken Hogback road from Plush to 395 just north of Lake...

Fire is about 9000 acres now and they seem to be holding it, road west closed and no new evacuations here. lot's of thunder /lightning and high winds and a few spot fires in area yesterday! Hele-attack chopper/crew landed on Honey Lake shoreline, put one right out. Boy we sure have good fire...

We use USFS Incident Command Web (and related forest /BLM nets and related facebook sites, CalFire and local and Reno radio and tv stations and web/facebook sites (Susanvillestuff.com, Lassennews.com, KSUE Radio). They just closed HW 36 and 44 at Eagle Lake Road west of town (a mile or outside...

Don't know when you are planning to head here but Make sure you check with both Calfire and Lassen, Plumas and Humbolt-Toiyabe and ModocNF -NF Incident Command web site because we have a couple of new fires just west of Susanville (hog flat) and in Big Valley. There are also some near by fires...

Yes rest in peace! Smoke

Living up here does have its benefits Monte (3 states is better than 1 to play in I always say :rolleyes:) , but luckily for us that whole Modoc Plateau/Warner Mountains area contains lots of places to roam, hike, camp and fish. You can usually avoid big crowds except at a few lakes and...

Okay gang, I just back from my first trip out this year-in my case , a week long run up to Res."C" on the Devils' Garden on the Modoc NF. It was great to be out-that over, here is what I saw and this is what determined what I did and didn't do! Most of you know I live up here in Lassen County in...