Yet Again

I go out yesterday morning to do chores and line things out and what do I see, smoke. There is a fire off by the mountain yet again. No lightning for weeks, I have no idea how it started but I know what to do, off to fight it. I start to head for it and finally come to the conclusion that the easiest way to get to this blaze is not to circle around and come up from the underside, some 25 mile trip from where I reached this conclusion, or come up the ridge behind it and walk down to it. That is what I do. At this point all I have seen is smoke but I work up behind the fire, which is on my neighbors place, and I find a skidding trail going up towards the top of the ridge and decide to take it up towards the top of the ridge.<br />n<br />nI walk the last 200 yards or so to the top, and look over for my first look at the fire.<br />n<br />n<center><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/sight09072006.jpg' alt='' /></center> <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/2035-Yet-Again.html#extended">Continue reading "Yet Again"</a>