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Wildfire Update: All Three Fires Grow
Source on InciWeb The Alder wildfire, now 4,503 acres, continues to slowly advance northwest, towards an area burned in the 2016 Hidden wildfire. The Alder wildfire is being held on a strategic containment line in Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest. … Continue reading
Wildfire Update: Fires grow slowly and official update pace slows.
Click images to enlarge – From InciWeb ALDER WILDFIRE Location: Five miles north of Camp Nelson above North Alder Creek Acres Burned: Approximately 2,903 acres Fire Discovered: October 4, 2018 Cause: Lightning Containment: 55% contained Resources: 125 total personnel: 3 crews, 5 engines, 2 – type 1 helicopters, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alder Fire, Golden Trout Wilderness, Mountaineer Fire, Sequoia National Forest, wildfire
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GTW.org Turns 7
Celebrating 7 years of goldentroutwilderness.org existence on the internet! To date there have been over 300,000 views, many trips completed, maps downloaded, and resources used. Thanks to readers like you for keeping the site going. Seeing how many people have … Continue reading
Wildfire Update: Fire Acreage Increases
MOUNTAINEER FIRE Location: About ½ mile north of Summit Trailhead, in the Golden Trout Wilderness. Acres Burned: Approximately 528 acres Fire Discovered: October 13 Cause: Lightning Containment: 0% Resources: 70 total personnel: 3 Crews and 3 engines Summary: The Mountaineer Fire is burning north of the Summit … Continue reading
Wildfire Update: Increased Acres, but Increased Containment
The Alder Fire is now up to 55% containment as it slowly increased in size over the weekend. The Mountaineer Fire still does not have any containment and increased slightly in size. More details are from InciWeb below. MOUNTAINEER FIRE … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, Alder Fire, Moses Fire, Mountaineer Fire, Sequoia National Forest, wildfire
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Wildfire Update: Growth, but with containment jump!
Here is your latest update for the Alder, Mountaineer, and Moses Fires. The Alder Fire has grown quite a bit since the last update here on GTW, but so has its containment. Now 1400 acres, it is almost 50% contained! … Continue reading
Wildfire Update: All three fires grow
The Alder Fire is now up to approximately 1,300 acres, Mountaineer is approximately 80, and Moses is grown slightly to 0.3 acres. Trails are still closed at this time. The exact details are below. Current Fire Information: inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6238/ ALDER FIRE Location: … Continue reading
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Tagged Alder Fire, Golden Trout Wilderness, Moses Fire, Mountaineer Fire, Sequoia National Forest
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Wildfire Update: Alder, Mountaineer, and Moses Fires Showing Little Growth
The Alder Fire, located just west of the Golden Trout Wilderness boundary, is the largest of the three fires currently burning. Mountaineer is only at 19 acres with very little growth. Moses remains at 0.1 acres. Crews are either continuing … Continue reading
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Tagged Alder Fire, Golden Trout Wilderness, Moses Fire, Mountaineer Fire, Sequoia National Forest
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Wildfire Update: Roads and Trails Close
Alder and Mountaineer Fires are continuing to grow. As such the Sequoia National Forest has issued Forest Orders to close trails and roads associated with the fire. Forest Service road 21S50 (North Road) above Clicks Creek TH is closed and … Continue reading
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Tagged 21S50, 30E14, 31E14, 31E18, 31E21, Alder Fire, closure, Golden Trout Wilderness, Griswold Trail, Jacobsen Trail, Mountaineer Fire, North Road, Sequoia National Forest, Summit Trail, wildfire
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Trip Report: Lewis Camp to Willow Springs
Kevin and 6 of his friends went out into the GTW earlier this month. His goal was to get away and find some solitude. Here is what he has to report. On the weekend of Oct 5th-7th six friends and … Continue reading
