[EBUCK]

but the dirt road the engine was driving on was narrow, about 11 feet wide, and the dark of night was made worse by smoke from the fire,

I wonder if the road was in disrepair due to restrictions on road building/maintenance in protected lands. Anyone know how to look that information up?

EBUCK

[cake_crumb]

"I wonder if the road was in disrepair due to restrictions on road building/maintenance in protected lands"

As far as I know, most fire access roads in the West are in disrepair, due to the antics of organizations like Wildfire.org Please to not take their version of the "facts" at face value. Not only are the facts wrong, because most of those burnt out areas hadn't seen a chainsaw in a couple of decades, their access roads were in disrepair. They have a link to the NIFC, I guess to make them sound legit...of course, they cite Clintonista Forestry Department statistics as "proof". Also, please note the EMAIL addy at the bottom of the page.

[Grampa Dave]

Re that road. I stopped using that road six years ago. It had gotten very scary then. I can imagine what it is like now. It is not really a fire road, but an old logging road that led to this remote camping/hunting/fishing area above the Klamath River.

As part of the Clinton/Gore green agenda, you make sure that no matching funds get out to repair these roads. In a few years, they become death traps, and then they get closed. Then the roadless agendas of the Green Jihadists win in another area.