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Also if you are bored check out Greyback Rd from Happy Camp, CA northwest to Highway 199 in OR. That was a fun road, even in a Jeep Compass. Pushing like a dump truck, but still fun. Pretty drive too, once I got out of the dense surface smoke.
That's a fire breaking through the inversion and putting up a column. Was taken from Ukonom Lookout, about 4700 ft.
Years and years ago, my dad spent a summer in Mt Shasta helping with forest fires. He wasn't a fireman by any stretch, but he was called to help once in a while - along with a few local convicts - or some I'm told. He had a story that one time his leg was on fire, and when he finally noticed and put it out, he asked one of the convicts why he didn't tell him his leg was on fire - or try to help put it out, and the dude told him he thought he was trying to burn himself on purpose so he could go to the infirmary and get out of jail for a bit. (my dad wasn't in jail doe)
1. Snow covered Mount Shasta
2. Marine layer stratus extending up the coastal valleys. It will sometimes push up the valley to ICP (Incident Command Post) which is at Point D!
3. Mid level smoke drifting south-southwest
4. Smoke plume from the Wallow Fire being advected northeast
5. Fog
6. Smoke from yesterday laying in some of the deeper valleys.