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Tag Archives: Golden Trout Wilderness
Wildfire Update: Fires Continue to Smolder
Amazing on how dry it is in the mountains. The three wildfires continue to smolder even after the Thanksgiving rain/snow. Sounds like the old Soda Fire from a few years ago. Anyway, we shall see what happens after these current … Continue reading
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Tagged Alder Fire, Golden Trout Wilderness, Moses Fire, Mountaineer Fire
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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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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
Wildfire: Mountaineer Fire
In case you were heading out along the Summit Trail or on the Mountaineer Trail, you may want to read this: The Mountaineer Fire is about one and a half miles east of the Alder Fire. It is located north … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, Golden Trout Wilderness, InciWeb, Mountaineer Fire, Sequoia National Forest
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Trail Report: Clicks Creek to Little Kern River at Sagebrush Gulch; then to Soda Spring Creek and Parole Cabin Meadow
User Dan Hall did a recent trip into the GTW. It sounds like quite the hike. Here is what he has to report. Make sure to check out a link to his photos. On October 8, 2018 I started my … Continue reading
