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<blockquote data-quote="drabdrew" data-source="post: 3064487" data-attributes="member: 128021"><p>The one that stick with me forever is me and my buddy were hunting an area around 10k elevation on a huge mountain flat. Super steep mountain range with about 5-7 miles of flat on the top. The only way to get up there is one gnarly jeep trail. One way in one way out. Takes about 2 hours to go 10 miles and the road up is all in tight thick stuff before it opens at the top. There is zero room to turn around. Wall on one side cliff on the other. We hunted 3 days 4 nights so far and I try and convince my buddy lets end the trip a day early and go get hamburgers because I am sick of mountain house. He convinced me to just stay one more night. Okay sure maybe we'll get lucky in the morning. It was a windy day but normal in that area. On our way back to camp the wind starts picking up gnarly. I am talking 50+ consistently with gusts that throw you off balance. I was like **** good thing none of us are smokers. Were sitting on our hammocks in some thick timber going over the game plan for tomorrow eating mountain houses and I noticed what looked like a large amber light just on the other side of the mountain from camp. I said to my buddy how the hell did a car get over there? We both start walking up the hill towards it to get a better look. We peak over the top of the hill and it was like nothing I have ever seen before. As far as the eye could see a MASSIVE wildfire for MILES. The winds must have been blowing the opposite way hiding the smoke or something or maybe it just lit after dark and became huge and we never saw it. We sprint back to camp and start putting together our gear. Do we have time to pack up or do we leave our stuff? What if the winds shifts towards our exit? We start packing with our backs to the fire and feel wind on our necks. Oh no wind shifted. We both look back and the fires already where we were up on the hill when we saw it the first time. NOPE LETS BOUNCE. Fire always travels uphill we need to go down. We hop in the thankfully fully functioning Polaris and absolutely rocket ship across the 5ish mile sage flatts to get to the start of trail out. Will an ember catch and cut off the only trail out? Will there be an overlander going 2mph on the way down like weve ran across many times? What takes around an hour to go 5 miles over the rocky log fell flats maybe took 20 me minutes. My poor polaris...We notice part of the fire paralleled the mountain range on the right side of us on the way out and was headed directly towards the road on the way out. If we start the descent and the fire makes it to the bottom before us were fuq'd as it would ride the oxygen up the canyon into our faces as there is nowhere to turn around and would be too slow to reverse back up. I must have set a speed record on that trail as what usally takes us 2 hours to get down that awful road took 45 minutes. We got down to the bottom maybe half a mile from the mountain where our truck and trailer was and its all flat open almost no trees or shrub(safe) and looked back up and see the fire had wrapped around the bottom maybe 5 minutes after we got through and was headed its way back up the road we came down. We nervously laugh as we finish loading up the trailer and give one last look back at what could have been before leaving. Wait....whats that? HOLY **** THERE IS A CAR COMING DOWN FROM THE TOP. We rip back into cell service which maybe took 10 minutes and contact the authorities. I guess the people in the car already sent out a SOS via sat phone and search and rescue airlifted them out and already had two other hunters who also got airlifted about 10 minutes before. I could care less now about bears, cougars, people, or paranormal thoughts while hunting now. But the hair on the back of my neck raises every time I find myself way out in the mountains and think about a fire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drabdrew, post: 3064487, member: 128021"] The one that stick with me forever is me and my buddy were hunting an area around 10k elevation on a huge mountain flat. Super steep mountain range with about 5-7 miles of flat on the top. The only way to get up there is one gnarly jeep trail. One way in one way out. Takes about 2 hours to go 10 miles and the road up is all in tight thick stuff before it opens at the top. There is zero room to turn around. Wall on one side cliff on the other. We hunted 3 days 4 nights so far and I try and convince my buddy lets end the trip a day early and go get hamburgers because I am sick of mountain house. He convinced me to just stay one more night. Okay sure maybe we'll get lucky in the morning. It was a windy day but normal in that area. On our way back to camp the wind starts picking up gnarly. I am talking 50+ consistently with gusts that throw you off balance. I was like **** good thing none of us are smokers. Were sitting on our hammocks in some thick timber going over the game plan for tomorrow eating mountain houses and I noticed what looked like a large amber light just on the other side of the mountain from camp. I said to my buddy how the hell did a car get over there? We both start walking up the hill towards it to get a better look. We peak over the top of the hill and it was like nothing I have ever seen before. As far as the eye could see a MASSIVE wildfire for MILES. The winds must have been blowing the opposite way hiding the smoke or something or maybe it just lit after dark and became huge and we never saw it. We sprint back to camp and start putting together our gear. Do we have time to pack up or do we leave our stuff? What if the winds shifts towards our exit? We start packing with our backs to the fire and feel wind on our necks. Oh no wind shifted. We both look back and the fires already where we were up on the hill when we saw it the first time. NOPE LETS BOUNCE. Fire always travels uphill we need to go down. We hop in the thankfully fully functioning Polaris and absolutely rocket ship across the 5ish mile sage flatts to get to the start of trail out. Will an ember catch and cut off the only trail out? Will there be an overlander going 2mph on the way down like weve ran across many times? What takes around an hour to go 5 miles over the rocky log fell flats maybe took 20 me minutes. My poor polaris...We notice part of the fire paralleled the mountain range on the right side of us on the way out and was headed directly towards the road on the way out. If we start the descent and the fire makes it to the bottom before us were fuq'd as it would ride the oxygen up the canyon into our faces as there is nowhere to turn around and would be too slow to reverse back up. I must have set a speed record on that trail as what usally takes us 2 hours to get down that awful road took 45 minutes. We got down to the bottom maybe half a mile from the mountain where our truck and trailer was and its all flat open almost no trees or shrub(safe) and looked back up and see the fire had wrapped around the bottom maybe 5 minutes after we got through and was headed its way back up the road we came down. We nervously laugh as we finish loading up the trailer and give one last look back at what could have been before leaving. Wait....whats that? HOLY **** THERE IS A CAR COMING DOWN FROM THE TOP. We rip back into cell service which maybe took 10 minutes and contact the authorities. I guess the people in the car already sent out a SOS via sat phone and search and rescue airlifted them out and already had two other hunters who also got airlifted about 10 minutes before. I could care less now about bears, cougars, people, or paranormal thoughts while hunting now. But the hair on the back of my neck raises every time I find myself way out in the mountains and think about a fire. [/QUOTE]
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