[pct-l] Fire east of Walker Pass on Friday 4/6/07

[Judith G]

> From: matt maxon <matt at mattmaxon.com>
> While driving South on Highway 14 ominous clouds of smoke where
> bellowing up from the vicinity of Walker Pass, as we turned on to
> Highway 178, sure enough it was up there....

I too was up there, on Friday, after placing a cache at Walker Pass  
Campground I had lunch at Canebrake Cafe, then stopped at Onyx to use  
my cell phone.   I saw several lightning strikes in the mountains to  
the south of Hwy 178, and soon there were Forest Service and County  
fire trucks screaming past me.  Looking back toward Walker Pass I saw  
the smoke billowing up.  Soon thereafter, driving down Kelso Valley  
Road to put water at Mary's cache, I was concerned about the fire,  
because I wanted to drive out to Bird Spring Pass to drop off water  
as well, and I thought the fire might be in that area too.  It  
wasn't, however.

there are news articles at:  http://www.bakersfield.com/619/story/ 
114198.html  and  http://www.bakersfield.com/619/story/114343.html   
The second URL has a photo and map, but the map isn't very specific.

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