High Park fire

[chrismjx Profile 14er Peak List (7) Trip Reports]

Used to love hiking and camping in this area... Good luck and best wishes to all those being evacuated from their homes, including Poudre Park residents for the second time in a month! So sad that this is the area's 3rd fire already this season! Get it together people, quit burning stuff...

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2904/

[chrismjx Profile 14er Peak List (7) Trip Reports]

And the Poudre River in Fort Collins dried up today too!

[ChrisRoberts Profile 14er Peak List (7) 13er Peak List (8)Trip Reports]

Bumped it up to 2-3k acres in the last hour. Saw smoke this morning in the mountains south of 34. Grown a lot by then.

[birdsall Profile 14er Peak List (20) Trip Reports]

From Lemay and Prospect area. Takes your breath away.

[ChrisRoberts Profile 14er Peak List (7) 13er Peak List (8)Trip Reports]

Nasty pictures on the twitter page: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23HighParkFire/grid/photos

[Jim Davies Profile 14er Peak List (57) 14ers in Winter (1)13er Peak List (58)Trip Reports]

Ten years ago today the Hayman fire grew by 60,000 acres. Tomorrow's forecast is much cooler, which should help.

[ChrisRoberts Profile 14er Peak List (7) 13er Peak List (8)Trip Reports]

I went to bed at 11 last night and didn't notice any lightning strikes, though Thursday night we had a huge lightning storm around midnight. Perhaps a tree got struck and was just smoldering before todays winds kicked up flames? Anyone see lightning last night?

[chrismjx Profile 14er Peak List (7) Trip Reports]

and Chris"MjX" ...since I can not send you a PM....

f**k You Smart Ass!

Ha ha ha! What? I was just stating a fact...

[Mark A Steiner Profile 14er Peak List (3) 13er Peak List (11)]

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Mushroom cloud from Hayman Fire viewed from Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, late afternoon June 9, 2002.

[Dave B Profile 14er Peak List Not Entered Trip Reports]

Interestingly the Flying Dutchman/Loft on Longs ended up being a pretty good vantage point to watch the fire start and grow.

10:26 am

10:26 am from Flying Dutchman

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...and ~an hour later

11:31 from close to the loft

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I first noticed it around 10 or so and thought it was a house fire (i.e. very small smoke plume).

[clemsonmtneer Profile 14er Peak List (35) 14ers Skied (5)13er Peak List (14)Trip Reports]

Watched the smoke from this fire explode from the summit of Mt. Yale today, growing enormously in a matter of 10 minutes. Crazy we could see it from that far away. Sad to see, that area can't catch a break this year!

[bob863 Profile 14er Peak List Not Entered Trip Reports]

I was able to notice the fire when I bicycled up to Echo Lake @ 11:00 AM