Mountains,Outdoors,Hiking,Sports,Reality Show,and Documentary Film, Discovery and Photography.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Coming soon!
The first one coming maybe this week is going to be called: Propaganda or Reality? I have research to do before I present this topic so it may take longer then this week, however stay tuned.....
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Fall Adventure
We are going to be hunting the Minam unit. It is rugged country but there are likely to be good size bulls in there. For those of you who know about the area, we plan to hike into the Red's Horse Ranch. The only way into it is to hike or by plane.
So as usual I will take pictures and have a daily running log. It is likely though I wont be able to post live. Most if not all of the unit is out of cell range.
I also plan to go out in August when the bulls are starting there rutt and try to call a few in to get some great pictures.
Stay tuned I hope to have some product reviews coming soon....
Monday, July 16, 2012
Shingle Fire Pictures
Valley near the fire |
Watch out for the hazard trees |
When the rain fell to the ground the soot bellowed up into the air |
This house was painted red by a retardant drop. It was also used as a lookout for all of us firefighters. |
Bucket drop |
Close flyby |
Seaman Canyon |
Down in Seaman Canyon |
View from DP 10 Staging area |
Mop up |
E-661 |
A free meal. Corn nuts |
A log roll with the Apache crew |
Cedar Banks Ski resort |
Mega condos |
Ski lift |
Seaman Canyon |
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Quick Turnaround
I want to give a special thanks to the people from the Dixie National forest. The residents treated us like hero's and were very hospitable. Thank all of you for that. Also I want to thank you also for the parting gift you sent us home with. Thank you again.
It's been a tiring go of it. When we were called to this last fire we left @ 8:40 pm pacific time and we mad it to the fire camp at 2:30 am. So as you can imagine we are tired.So with that thanks for following fire season 2012. We will likely be out again this season, so I will keep you in the loop and give you the inside scoop as I am able. Until the next fire.......
P S I will put up more pictures of our fire adventures and also have the normal blog tings going on. So please keep checking back. If you like my blog please tell a friend.....Later
Travis
Friday, July 13, 2012
Staging for IA
Here we are in Mcdermit Nevada. Our assignment is initial attack. So if there is a new start we will go after it. They are expecting lightning. We have a huge area to cover. From here to Burns jcn to Rome to the Id border and along the Nevada border. It could be really boring or real exciting. For now I have cell service but if we move we may be out of service for a couple of days. Stay tuned..
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Dispatched Again
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Temporarily Home
I am sorry I didn't have an update every day but the cell phone signal was poor at best.That is usually the case on a wildfire incident. I hope you enjoyed following along. I will continue to bring about mobile updates as I can on the next one.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Progress on shingle fire
We are making good progress on the fire. I dont know what the containment is officially but we have been mopping up to 300'. There is going to be some rehab work done on the fire lines a d they have opened roads. They are also letting people back into their homes.
The picture is of drop point 10. This is where we meet before we get to the fire and after for a while breifing