Fire!

I don’t know why, but I feel the need to explore whenever something changes in my primary stomping ground. Since forestry did a controlled burn on Tuesday (2 days earlier), I wanted to explore the burn area and walk the firebreaks to see how far it went.

One of the cool things after forest fires is the standing dead trees and logs that manage to catch fire and continue burning for days, weeks and even months. I tried to get some photos, last night, but the best fires were out of reach. There will be more chances in the future. The best time to take photos is while there is still some light in the sky. I got a late start, last night.

As far as the hike goes; we set out from the end of Hunters Creek Rd at the forest boundary and we came out by Long Point Rd because the weather was looking like we might get very wet if we overstayed out welcome. We had to walk a mile on HW58, but there was barely any traffic, so we had the entire road to ourselves most of the time.