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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:12:23 PM EDT
Crossposted from MT HTF in case any of you have vacation plans.
Going-to-the-Sun Highway closed from Avalanche Creek to Logan Pass. https://nbcmontana.com/weather/wildfires/evacuation-order-for-howe-ridge-fire-has-been-expanded-to-include-lake-mcdonald-lodge http://www.kpax.com/story/38870416/glacier-np-fire-grows-overnight-evacuations-remain-in-place 
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:12:55 PM EDT
[#1]
Shits on fire yo
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:13:50 PM EDT
[#2]
That sucks!
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:14:46 PM EDT
[#3]
That looks bad.
Hope everyone gets out safely. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:18:31 PM EDT
[#4]
Not more fires
One of my favorite memories as a kid is the huckleberry ice cream at the Apgar campground. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:18:40 PM EDT
[#5]
 Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (Live from Montreux 2007) |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:18:57 PM EDT
[#6]
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That looks bad. Hope everyone gets out safely. Everything's booked weeks in advance around here in the summer. Also evacuated were private inholding cottages on the East side of Lake McDonald. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:19:55 PM EDT
[#7]
Wow!
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:25:25 PM EDT
[#8]
I was there in 2010 and they had had a fire the year before. There was a large area of dead trees, but everything was getting green again. Mother nature will replenish it!
Glacier is one beautiful place! |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:35:13 PM EDT
[#9]
Photos of Bombardier Super Scoopers working yesterday before the winds blew the fire up.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:38:01 PM EDT
[#10]
Damn that's my favorite NP.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:51:49 PM EDT
[#11]
I was right where that pic took place just 5 weeks ago. Damn
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:53:17 PM EDT
[#12]
 Massive Fire in Glacier National Park - Howe Ridge Fire from Lake McDonald Lodge on August 12 2018 |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:56:04 PM EDT
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That looks bad. Hope everyone gets out safely. My wife and I have been to GNP twice and it's beautiful there.
Thank you for the heads up elcope. Stay safe, Sir. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 12:57:58 PM EDT
[#14]
Looks like it’s going to get Smokey over here again.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 1:10:31 PM EDT
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Looks like it’s going to get Smokey over here again. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 1:13:45 PM EDT
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Looks like it’s going to get Smokey over here again. Friday one could smell burning trees. At one point you could make out the smell of burning pines. There is a yellow film of dust on my cars. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 1:15:04 PM EDT
[#17]
Quite smoky in the Flathead Valley today.
Smells like a campfire, too. Hopefully this fire isn't as bad as the GNP fires last year around this time. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 1:19:09 PM EDT
[#18]
Wow. Came home Saturday from a week up there. Stay safe
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Posted: 8/13/2018 1:23:23 PM EDT
[#19]
Never got to see that part of the park last year because of the fires. They also fucked up my hiking route from Kintla to Bowman. Had to do time in Two Medicine. That resulted in hypothermia the second day and an early exit.
Hopefully they get those fires under control. It wasn't until I started backpacking out west that I learned how common those things are. Never really heard about them on the news before (at least not that I could recall). |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 1:36:39 PM EDT
[#20]
Holy shit. It's hard to believe that's the same lake I canoed in. It looks like hell on Earth.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 1:36:46 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/13/2018 1:43:05 PM EDT
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It has been rediculous. Just a craptastic haze in the sky. Friday one could smell burning trees. At one point you could make out the smell of burning pines. There is a yellow film of dust on my cars. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Looks like it’s going to get Smokey over here again. Friday one could smell burning trees. At one point you could make out the smell of burning pines. There is a yellow film of dust on my cars. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 2:15:33 PM EDT
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Never really heard about them on the news before (at least not that I could recall). Half of Montana was on fire last year and the media ignored it. Nobody cares. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 2:26:45 PM EDT
[#24]
Holy shit, that looks bad. Containment status?
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Posted: 8/13/2018 2:29:59 PM EDT
[#25]
That's horrible looking.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 2:33:51 PM EDT
[#26]
That is a hot-ass fire. Flying out there in 12 days, my buddy said BZN is very smokey. Fires down near W. Yellowstone he said.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 2:42:06 PM EDT
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Holy shit, that looks bad. Containment status? http://www.kpax.com/story/38872974/structures-burn-in-glacier-national-park-wildfire No containment status as this fire isn't even on Inciweb yet. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 2:45:15 PM EDT
[#28]
Picture from last night from the shore at Apgar Village.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 3:06:58 PM EDT
[#29]
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That is a hot-ass fire. Flying out there in 12 days, my buddy said BZN is very smokey. Fires down near W. Yellowstone he said. http://www.dailyinterlake.com/local_news/20180813/flathead_forest_to_move_to_stage_2_fire_restrictions |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 3:14:59 PM EDT
[#30]
Fire season got started late but it sure is making up for lost time.
Kelly's camp is reportedly gone now too. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 3:22:00 PM EDT
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Every time someone burns a brush pile in California, it makes the national news. Half of Montana was on fire last year and the media ignored it. Nobody cares. I also spend weeks and months in Idaho, Colorado, Utah, etc fighting fires...no real media coverage unless we burn down 100+ homes. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 3:52:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryBut it is now showing on the NFSA mapping site.
https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/48.6481/-114.1078/10 |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 4:29:53 PM EDT
[#33]
That does not look so good.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 4:35:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:19:27 PM EDT
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Mother Nature's a bitch...
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:20:38 PM EDT
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Shits on fire yo |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:24:46 PM EDT
[#37]
No.... God fucking damnit..... I'm supposed to go next summer.
Fuck. Every time I visit a NP a fucking fire has burned it to cider the year before. Man I hope people are not stuck on trails or campsites in that! |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:27:44 PM EDT
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No.... God fucking damnit..... I'm supposed to go next summer. Fuck. Every time I visit a NP a fucking fire has burned it to cider the year before. Man I hope people are not stuck on trails or campsites in that! 
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:30:13 PM EDT
[#39]
I was just there over the 4th of July. What an amazing place. Hope they get the fire out before it gets to any of the park buildings. I know they lost the Sperry Chalet to a fire last year.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:31:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm pretty sure this fire will be out by then. Sorry guys! I made plans to stay in Glacier..... I brought this on you
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:33:58 PM EDT
[#41]
I could never live in fire country, my crappy lungs would take one breath of that air and go into full blown respiratory distress. Prayers out for all those affected.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:39:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh I know, but last time we were in Yellowstone many of our destinations were nothing but blackened toothpicks. Same in Zion. Same in Algonquin in Canada. Just seems like a curse at this point. Sorry guys! I made plans to stay in Glacier..... I brought this on you Between the Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness, there more room to hike than the States of Mass, RI & CT. Plenty of space to find yourself in. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:44:05 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: When it gets time next year, start a thread in the MT HTF and I'll find you campgrounds / hikes that haven't recently burned. Between the Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness, there more room to hike than the States of Mass, RI & CT. Plenty of space to find yourself in. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:48:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's so smoky here now that I can't see a single mountain from the middle of the valley. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:52:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ll take you up on that! Local intel will be much appreciated! We’re staying pretty close to Hungry Horse Lake and Flathead National Forest east of Martin City. It's where you want to go if you want to avoid people. ETA: This is the guide I was referring to. https://www.trails.com/catalog_product.aspx?productfamilyid=10330&page=3 |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 5:54:33 PM EDT
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You in Cowspell? Bummer to see the parks burn, but I guess it's nature's way. Almost all the fires burning in MT right now are caused by lightening, so it is indeed natures way. But it is a pain in the ass. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 6:02:55 PM EDT
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Just left there 2 weeks ago. One of the best vacations that I have taken. Beautiful country. Stay safe.
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Posted: 8/13/2018 6:05:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/13/2018 6:10:34 PM EDT
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Work in Kalispell, live in Whitefish. Almost all the fires burning in MT right now are caused by lightening, so it is indeed natures way. But it is a pain in the ass. Stay safe. |
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Posted: 8/13/2018 6:17:42 PM EDT
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When does early elk open in the Bob? I have drill that weekend.
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