View from plane going to Arcata
Old burn from 10 years ago
Inside of finance tent. Just getting computers set up.
Tents
Tents on 1st base line.
The kitchen
Back side of Main St
Tents on 1st base line
Medical tent
Overhead parking lot
My tent on the left side
Mobile church
Telcom wires
Wire block
Cables strung through trees to keep them from being trampled
Overhead parking and supply unit and lunch trailer
Main st
Aircraft
Helicopter at heli base
Aircraft with sling of supplies
This is the only smoke we had from camp
View of smoke from camp
Inmate fire crew
Morning briefing
Tent for inmates
Overhead parking
Heli base
Very weird looking bird. It has two rotors and has a very large payload
Two rotors
Coming in for a landing
Landing
Hula girl on the dash
Lots of air traffic in the sky
Old burn and freshly burned
Smoldering
Landing zone. Note the 2 small cabins that acted as spike camps
More air traffic
Carrying batteries to the repeaters. This was so dry and dusty.
It was a pretty good hike at approx 7000 ft elevation over some bumpy terrain.
Still walking to the repeaters.
Pretty obvious that it just burned here. Green grass just a short distance away.
Repeater site. Note the ropes on the right side of the picture. They are supporting the antennas.
Rick working on the radio.
The little stubble was 10 yr old growth that is freshly burned over. The large timber is what is left from the old burn. Can be tricky to walk on.
Making it back to our transportation
Getting ready to head back to camp. Left to right = Rick, Cliff and myself.
Taking off. There is a fire fighter hiding in the trees trying to stay out of the dust.
During landing, the pilot circled pretty low to the ground and a porta potty did not fair so well.
Getting a rental vehicle from Redding. It was pretty warm.
Driving to Forks of Salmon.
Setting up a remote satellite for internet access to a spike camp.
Setting some of the needed angles.
Satellite in a box.
Almost done setting up the dish.
It looks pretty simple once it is complete.
There was a dip site very close to the spike camp. This helicopter was dipping from the river.
Done dipping and heading back to drop the water.
Final resting spot for the satellite.
This is the other part of the satellite. In this box is the indoor satellite part, a UPS and a router.
Dipping in the river at Forks of Salmon.
Poison oak
