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Head out to the Sawtooths. Here's a photo my daughter took at Redfish Lake. She's a pretty good photographer for 13.


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I was there in Summer of 2000. It was dreadfully hot (there was a bar in Ketchum we closed every night because they had air conditioning), and there were massive fires in Montana. You couldn't go riding for fear of a horseshoe creating a spark and starting a fire. When I got my pictures back from the developer, there was note with them that said we think there's something wrong with your camera. But it was just the smoke haze from any pictures I took at a distance. Beautiful place though. The headwater of the Salmon River is nearby.
 

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I was there in Summer of 2000. It was dreadfully hot (there was a bar in Ketchum we closed every night because they had air conditioning), and there were massive fires in Montana. You couldn't go riding for fear of a horseshoe creating a spark and starting a fire. When I got my pictures back from the developer, there was note with them that said we think there's something wrong with your camera. But it was just the smoke haze from any pictures I took at a distance. Beautiful place though. The headwater of the Salmon River is nearby.
We were backpacking in the Wind Rivers in 1988, the year of the Yellowstone fires. There was a fire in the WR to the west of us, named the "Pinedale Fire." One day, the wind shifted and, when we looked south to the Lizard Head glacier, there was the haze you mention. We were lucky. OTOH, friends of ours went in at the same time but went to the Absarokas, which lie to the east of the Wind Rivers. They were in the main wind path of the fires in Yellowstone. They came back covered in black carbon. It was even in their packs...
 

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Oh, we barely made it out over Bear's Ears Pass to our car and it snowed overnight down in Dubois. It would have been crotch-high up at the pass. Those snows started putting out the Yellowstone Fires. When we got on the plane to come back, a firefighter from Arkansas sat with us, still attired in his fire-resistant yellow shirt and green pants. He smelled of smoke. He said they'd rousted him out of his tent at 5:00 AM and told him exactly how many hours he still had on the clock, just enough to get to Jackson, board a plane and land in Little Rock (via DFW, which is where we were heading)...
 

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