Pagami Creek Fire

As seen by a band of fishermen who cared peripherally about it (don't mean to sound crass, but we were in fact a band of fishermen). We were north of the fire a good ways. The images that follow the map (from Pioneer Press) were collected by me, from various vantage points, looking south and maybe slightly SE. Some of it was clearly "smoke as art" from our perspective. It was interesting to ponder it and zoom our mental eye closer and closer and construct the release of decades of carbon bound together by sun's energy; now broken apart and expelling that energy as heat.

For reference, we were in camp Sept 8-14. I see now that what I recall feeling like a south wind ~9/12-9/13 must have been more of a SW wind; pushing that maroon polygon north and east.