![]() I'm very fond of the wilderness areas at the top of the ridge here. By comparison, the Tamarack fire east of there started July 4 and is still burning now. This fire has burned almost 100,000 acres (150 sq. It was really shaking in the wind before that. The Caltrans camera at Twin Bridges stopped working yesterday afternoon. The spot above Kyburz has apparently grown. The fire is spotting out in front of each of the main fingers - over a mile ahead in some cases. Light downslope winds overnight, moderate but gusty upslope winds from the SW every day. Its slowed today, but the forecast looks the same for the next several days. The other two are Across the Wide Missouri and The Course of Empire. That book is one of a trilogy by DeVoto on the history of the American frontier, all of which are excellent. Sutter's Mill where gold was discovered in CA is on the South Fork American River - downriver from the town of Kyburz where the fire is burning. And of course Sutter's Fort and mill at the end of the trail was a big part of that. In addition to the immigrant trains to California, the Mexican American war started, the fur trappers or "Mountain Men" were in their heyday and the Native American plains Indian horse cultures were flourishing. Its about more than the Donners, who were just one unfortunate part of that especially pivotal year. The Year of Decision, 1846 by Bernard DeVoto. If you're interested in the history of the American west, there's a fantastic book about the great migration that uses events of that particular year to paint the picture. To quote another famous orienteer, the Donners were "too late" :) Matthias' family could well be related to the Kyburz of California. ![]() The Kyburz' probably crossed the sierra through Truckee just like the Donners, but beat the heavy snows that year. It appears that Samuel Kyburz brought his family from Wisconsin on an immigrant wagon train across the plains from Independence, Missouri in 1846 - the same year but slightly ahead of the infamous Donner party. ![]() The Kyburz family history in CA is pretty interesting. Preparations such as mapping and course planning (with a budget of zero) stopped in March 2020 as the pandemic hit. almost locked in by the Beckwourth Complex and the Dixie Fire. Prior to that, as early as 2018, I was involved in identifying alternate venues for the WRC, in case Northstar would burn with enough time left between that and the event dates. A companion proposal outlined how I could help the rogaine portion happen, in a major/principal way. Wildfires are exceedingly rare in California in December and January and the fire season lasts roughly early June through mid-November. On 08 April 2021 I sent, to representatives of the Steering Committee and the Rogaine Committee, a detailed proposal for NAOC in late 2022 and World Rogaining Championships in early 2023, using existing BAOC, Nav-X, Get Lost!!, and terraloco venues. Why, you ask, are you criticizing and not helping? "Wildfire evacuations last days, not hours have a physical map just in case cellphone towers get destroyed in the fire and service goes out." ou want to be the first guy on that road. 1 lesson learned : Do not wait until the last minute to evacuate. "The majority of roadways in Tahoe are small, two-lane highways that already exceed their capacity for traffic on any given day because of the basin’s high volume of tourism." " 'If large fire occurs on a summer day, hundreds of thousands of visitors will overwhelm the Basin’s limited evacuation routes,' reads the Lake Tahoe Basin Forest Action Plan Between 20, some 350 wildfires were ignited in the Lake Tahoe Basin." It’s simple math to get a picture of the nightmare that’s waiting in Lake Tahoe when an order to evacuate a wildfire comes." "There are six routes that lead in and out of the basin.
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