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The Great Smoky Mountains of Idaho - 2006
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| September 24, 2006
| Jeff Head
Posted on 09/23/2006 12:04:56 PM PDT by Jeff Head
While working this summer for the Federal Government on some communication issues on a ridgeline at about 7,000 feet in the mountains of Idaho, I was witness to the true, Great Smoky Mountains, not the mist and fog shrouded variety back east. Here's a picture I took.
The Great Smoky Mountains of Idaho - 2006
The wind had come up that day out of the south very strong and allowed us to get to this particular spot without fear of the fire. We passed through a National Guard check point and as Federal Employees, with a comm job to do, were allowed access.
Here are some more pictures from those days activities.
Looking the other way (to the south) from that same ridge line.
Mountain Comm shed. BTW, that building's roof line was covered by over 3 ft of snow in January. You can see
some damage in the background on the lower left to one of the solar cells from the heavy snow as it melted this Spring.
Yours truly working inside the shed on some PCB changes.
Working up on a tower at the other end, preparing to install a yagi directional antenna.
As a note, the next day, the wind turned around and blew from the north and the fire crossed the ridge line you see in that intial picture and the ridge we were working on had to be evacuated. Luckily, before it proceeded much further, the fire was extinguished by mountain rain and snow that has since fallen in that entire area.
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KEYWORDS: forestfires; homelandsecurity; idaho; intermountainwest; rockymountains; usinfrastructure; wildfires
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Thought some folks on FR might be interested in this.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:04:57 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
To: joanie-f; Dukie; Squantos; JohnHuang2; RobFromGa; k.trujillo; Travis McGee; jim macomber; ...
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:05:15 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: Jeff Head
There is a big fire in NorCal in a heavily used area (Lakes Basin) in the mountains going on right now. It's affecting a lot of people.
Go here for details: http://yubanet.com/bassetts.shtml
On a side note, I am in the Boise area, and the smoke was really bad here a couple of weeks ago.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:09:41 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Don't mess with Israel.)
To: Jeff Head
Thanks for the cool pics.
Hang on tight up there.
:-)
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:10:05 PM PDT
by
mcshot
("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
To: Jeff Head
Cool pics. Thanks for posting.
To: Jeff Head
Great! Thanks...I loved the time we spent in Idaho 2 summers ago...Sawtooth Mountains area...
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:11:53 PM PDT
by
Molly Pitcher
(We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
To: Jeff Head
Thanks, Jeff- I've flown over that area many times, years ago. God's country, big and brassy.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:14:59 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: Jeff Head
To: Jeff Head
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:17:25 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: Disambiguator
I was up on a mountian top near Boise during that time...here's what that looked like before the south wind I mention in this thread blew it all to the north...before the cooler weather set in.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:19:17 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: mcshot
Thanks. we always think safety and I have my harness on and am tied off up there. Too many grandkids want papa to stay healthy as long as possible.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:20:20 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: Jeff Head
Jeff, you are making me homesick. Where were the pix taken?
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:20:35 PM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Another member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/NWO/Illuminati conspiracy for global domination!)
To: hedgetrimmer; Molly Pitcher; backhoe; Ernest_at_the_Beach
You are all welcome. I am blessed to be able to work often in that very beautiful, scenic, environment. Good for the soul.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:21:28 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: cripplecreek
Thanks...they went and threw me in that briar patch...hehehe.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:22:05 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: LexBaird
In the mountains of central Idaho. (OpSec)
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:23:39 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: Jeff Head
What you see to the right of the picture is what the Valley looked like...ick. That, plus my normal fall allergies, made for a miserable time.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:24:59 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Don't mess with Israel.)
To: Jeff Head
Those are merely the Smoky Mountains.
The Great Smokies are in East Tennessee.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:26:07 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Clinton screwed around while OBL attacked.)
To: Disambiguator
Sorry to hear it. To the right actually looks north in that pic, further into the mountains towards central Idaho where one of the major fires was buringing at the time.
The valley (looking to the west and south), was also pretty nasty, as you can see the smoke hanging and lingering in those lower drainages to the north.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:27:04 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: Jeff Head
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:27:08 PM PDT
by
dljordan
To: bert
That was my point...kinda of a sarcasm.
The Great Smokies in Tennessee, which I have seen and visited many times, are not as high, and certainly not as Smoky as what you see there in Idaho. The actual name for those mountains in Idaho is something different entirely. It is just that this year, with that big fire, they became the Smokies for a six week period or so.
The Smokies in Tennessee are really misty and foggy, which gives them the appearance of smoke and thus the name.
Best Fregards.
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posted on
09/23/2006 12:30:20 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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