While on a fire you see a variety of things. For instance one morning on the way to the fire line I saw Wolverine in a field looking for food. I have seen a badger, people rafting on the river near the fire who were nude, people transporting water to their marijuana farms (behind closed roads mind you), and many others.
Once again on this fire was another first. On the way back to camp we had to stop for a horse drive? Well the truth is I think they were moving the horses from one pasture to another. In fact this property was a sort of resort. They had places for people to stay and there was a variety of activities you could do on the ranch as a guest.
And then the rains came. We had some showers and then during one of our last nights there it rained. Hard. The next morning as we went up to the fire we hit fog. And boy was it thick. We could barley see the road. When we got to the drop point it was thick as pea soup. You can see in the pictures below.
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The town of Republic was very small. It did have a grocery store and a hardware store, and a motel. It was in part a old looking western town.
This was as the fire season was winding down.And we had one more assignment. Another first for me. Rehab work. On my next post I will show you the rehab work we did to finish our season.
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