rainymountain's Journal

4.35 pm A lot of smoke today, you can see it in the photos with the blue hazing of the distance and no mountains. My parsimonious self would not consider drying the washing in the dryer so it all smells as though it was dried over a wood fire and my throat feels well smoked too, and probably the ...

5.44 pm Came out of the arcade to our local supermarket and saw a column of smoke rising to form its own cloud above the long ridge of peaks south of Mt. Begbie – apparently there is a fire at Mulvehouse Creek, that’s maybe half-way to the Galina Ferry, as yet only a small one. Hand-w...

4.15 pm Light rain, may it continue; cool, grey day – must be cloud up there, smoke haze thinned a little. I see Kelly (down in Nelson) is getting the smoke now so the wind must have gone around. The fires: the nearest to us is about an hour’s drive away, less as the crow flies, due s...

8.11 am The weather station says sunny but it is another smoke-filled day, the mountains vague blue shades, but looking up the sky looks covered with patchy cloud. The forecast is for a week of cloud, rain and much cooler temperatures. The good news is the rain, the forest is tinder dry. The bad ...

2.42 pm Came back from Mt Fidelity Snow Research Station yesterday, back down into smoke haze and even hotter temperatures. Down from 1800m (5,400 ft) where the Station is perched on a ledge with a view directly east along the TransCanada highway running through Glacier National Park to the Mt. ...