HeatherP & M Quik; Air Creation Pixel, Tanarg, Skypper, Clipper, Racer; Revo; North Wing Navajo
300+ solo
Petaluma; Gnoss; Aubenas, France; Healdsburg; Shawnee Field; Cloverdale; Sonoma Skypark; Ukiah; Sea Ranch; Nut Tree; Napa; Carson City; Mindon; Santa Rosa; Concord PIC, bunch of others dual.
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| Model | AGING |
| Shutter | 1/160 |
| Aperture | f/8 |
| ISO Speed | 100 |
| Focal Length | 14mm |
| Captured | (Macintosh) |
Southern Lake County Five Days Before Valley Fire
By Heather
My passenger took this photo on Labor Day. Directly beneath us was the scorched ground from the just put out Rocky & Jerusalem fires. We flew during the one week there wasn't a TFR in this area.
Comments
Beautiful landscape. I hope it survived the fire
Ken, that area is pretty much all burned or burning. Fire season is really bad this year in northern CA. It's good for the land - when I was in the already burned area on the ground, I saw thousands of seeds just released from their cones (takes a fire to do this for some plants). However, not so good for the residents.
Heather do morrels come up after the fires there like they do here.For you that dont know a morrel is the most tastey mushroom youll ever eat.
white eagle, I think I'm going mushroom hunting this winter! Somebody else mentioned the morels will be coming. I've only had the guts to eat giant puffballs as wild gathered thus far. I'd definitely go for the morels since I'm told they're different looking from everything else.
Heather ive lived outback for 20 years. Lived 5 years in a tp at 7000 ft summer and winter in montana totally eating nothing but wild edibles.I concider myself a expert survivalist. here are some tips giant puffballs (pretty safe if white and very smooth) but dont cook them in butter. And beware of close to spore stage. Will give you the worst case of the term sick. With mushrooms be very careful a rule i use. Just pick the ones that are very identifiable. Tops are morels (cut them in half vertical,if hollow completly there good.) King boletes ,fried chicken, shaggy manes, st georges are very good but need a spore print. One of the best is cat tails . I still eat them.filled with nutrition. Available for food all seasons. The cat tail part before it turns brown is exstreamly good for you. Yellow part too all but the stick. From cat tails you mimick all these foods in easily obtainable quanitys.(thats important) mimicks, cucumber,potatoes,onions,rice, greens, white flour and from the pollen yellow flour. Makes great huckle berry pancakes.
OK HOWS THIS RELATE TO FLYING every pilot that flys cross country or away from from their airport should have some surrvival skills. Weather your in the desert,ocean,or rugged terrain like montana. You may survive the engine out but die from the terrain.if you dont know how to get proper shelter fast and produce drinkable water and find safe abundant food all seasons you will sucome to the elements faster than you think. Things can go wrong with the best planning.I remember not having a bath for several weeks in my tee pee. My floor was covered in fine shale. It was 52 below zero for two weeks. Id spent the entire day melting water from snow on my wood stove in a hugh pan. Had alot of dry wood in the corner of my tp. So that evening very cold i ditched my cloths put the pot on the floor by my wood stove stepped in burned the hell out of the bottom of my feet. That caused me to arch my back burned both buns on a firey hot stove. That caused me to lose my balance and flip face first into the wet shale.the hot water soaked all my dry wood and i had to open my tp door because of the saunna effect. When i opened the door the hot moist air hit the neg 52 dry air. Wooosh my tee pee turned into a cloud couldnt see anything? The shale had freeze dried on me.I looked like a reptile. My fire was out my wood was wet and i had no water to get the shale off of me. Boy did i feel humbled. True story that you might like it.
I'm with you, white eagle. I've taken to carrying water, and I will put together a survival kit. I've had some funny moments in the wilderness (I'm a field biologist), but nothing like your story! I had tears running down my face, though I don't suppose it was hilarious at the time...
Its strange but when alone in the woods, if you cant laugh at yourself nobody else will.so you learn to enjoy it? Field biology that is awesome.I love seagulls,golden eagles and all of the things in nature. Flying helps me contenplate the bigger picture. What a perspective to sit in a grove of seedlings from a fallen dead pine that rotted away and left a growing imprint of itself. And then fly over a wilderness in a trike. Ken here is a herpatolagist what an awesome group of people gets attracted to bird like flight? Thanks for all you do.
Awesome story WE! I'm at work and trying to to bust out loud laughing. Happy to hear it was only your pride that took a serious hit too.
I wanted to ask that those of us who haven't had their entire forests go up in smoke this year (uugh, so traggic), does anyone carry a long rope to descend out of trees with? Seems a good deal of trikes that crash into trees are fine but getting out of the trees is a serious problem. Some have even died while trying to get down.
Wile E, I'm trying find a joke in there, about being stuck up in a tree without a rope...But never mind.(grin)
I used to fly hang gliders with jimmy pyka. At sandia peak launch is 10365 ft with a verticle drop of 5000 ft with tall towering pinickle shear verticle. My friend and blacksheep pilot jimmy launched into severe turbulance. Pilots were watching him with binockulars getting tossed around like a ragdoll. He then crashed into a tall towering pine on a thousand ft pinickle. Totally unhurt but stuck and wrapped in flying wires. It took the search and rescue hours to get to him. They got him into the basket to lower him down but unfortunatly he fell out of the basket.broke almost every bone in his body but lived to fly many more. I think a short rope and a few carrabiners would be good so you at least sucure a decent down with some inginuity. A mass of rope would be pretty bulky.