When I left Arizona, the fire was obviously huge then. I recall the high SSW 
side of the mountain and up to Summerhaven being burned. How much of the 
mountain is burned now? Isnt Redington Pass in far East Tucson!? Has the 
fire gone that far east? I also recall them saying something about Oracle 
possibly being threatened? Has the fire stopped traveling north and now 
moving east? How much of the mountain has been burned?

This is pretty sad to see. I have only visited the top of Mnt Lemmon a 
couple of times and it has been years since I was last up there. Wish I had 
gone up there more often (I havent gotten any of the caches up there either, 
for that now unimportant matter). It is really sad to hear if it was indeed 
human caused. Have they yet determined the cause of it yet? I recalled 
hearing something about it being human caused. It doesnt matter how much you 
preach to people about how dry the forests are and about the restrictions in 
place and yet some idiot throws a cigerette out the window or starts a 
campfire at night. I remember last summer when there was severe ristrictions 
in place (but parts of Tonto were still open at the time), we went caching 
up around state route 188 a bit south of Young. There is a campground there 
near the waterfalls (cant remember names here). I remember driving up the 
dirt road and seeing a couple of RV's camped out there and there was a good 
size campfire going (even though there was the sign at the entrance stating 
level of fire danger being severe). IDIOTS!!! They ought to throw people in 
jail for that rather then just fine them. Are they really that oblivious to 
the restrictions?

There are a few good size forest fires in the eastern Washington forests up 
here as well. But, nothing to the scale of the Apsen Fire. Also, some fires 
in Oregon as well. I am on the west side of the Cascade Mnts and the forests 
are a bit wetter over here.

Scott
Team Ropingthewind

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