2020 Pashnit Touring
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Last thing on the docket was Highway 128 to go see the wildfire region under Lake Berryessa. It's always a bit sobering to ride into these regions and since I'm usually running around the state at regular intervals, I can detour into burned areas to survey the change.
The LNU Lightning fire started the day I rode through here a month ago and I shot pics of Lower Chiles Valley Rd & Highway 128 on the last tour, it burned the next day. The lightning storm we woke up to on Sunday morning mid-August resulted in 10,849 lightning strikes that – within a 72-hour period – had then presumably sparked 376 known fires across much of the state.
The LNU Lightning fire burned a huge area: 363,220 Acres. This fire was from natural causes and was said to be 250 separate fires that all coalesced into this conflagration. Most of this is wilderness regions or low ranges, but all very dry.
5 people died, 1491 structures destroyed, 232 structures damaged, and another five injured. And it's just one of numerous fires started by the storm i photographed out over the ocean August 19.
The LNU Lightning fire started the day I rode through here a month ago and I shot pics of Lower Chiles Valley Rd & Highway 128 on the last tour, it burned the next day. The lightning storm we woke up to on Sunday morning mid-August resulted in 10,849 lightning strikes that – within a 72-hour period – had then presumably sparked 376 known fires across much of the state.
The LNU Lightning fire burned a huge area: 363,220 Acres. This fire was from natural causes and was said to be 250 separate fires that all coalesced into this conflagration. Most of this is wilderness regions or low ranges, but all very dry.
5 people died, 1491 structures destroyed, 232 structures damaged, and another five injured. And it's just one of numerous fires started by the storm i photographed out over the ocean August 19.
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Well kids, that wraps up this ride, NorCal is a super fun region to run through when it's not all burning. The smoke faded away after about a week, and we saw the sun for the first time in about two weeks.
First day of Labor Day weekend, Sept 5, this started. My next (planned) tour is headed straight for this monstrosity. This is the Creek Fire that's currently burning east of Fresno in the central Sierra Nevada range.
So I may have to figure out an alternate plan for the scheduled ride. Oddly enough, the only place where we don't have fires right now is the Southern Sierra Nevada, so we may go that-a-way.
The plan was to head for Bass Lake, but probably not.
Couple days ago:
And Today: Crazy.
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Many of the Evac orders and Evac warnings have been lifted on the western edge of the Creek Fire, a few miles east of me. Only a few small fires in the Kings Canyon area with one larger one a lil farther south. The smoke cloud around here (Coarsegold) just south of Oakhurst and Bass Lake a few miles away s still quite thick.
It's been 20 years since I've been to Railtown 1897 state park in Jamestown. Any Rail Fans out there?
Known as the 'movie railroad', this is where Hollywood comes to film all their movies that involve trains.
Admittedly, I've been riding past it for 20 years which is probably a bad thing, you should always immerse yourself in local history.
...was filmed here along with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and a host of other films.
Known as the 'movie railroad', this is where Hollywood comes to film all their movies that involve trains.
Admittedly, I've been riding past it for 20 years which is probably a bad thing, you should always immerse yourself in local history.
...was filmed here along with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and a host of other films.
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