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July 21, 2005 6:09 PM
Where's Alan?
105.5676W 40.79019N

I'm just outside of a small mountain town called Red Feather Lakes. I had a few Amazon book sales today, so I drove to the little post office and saw smoke in the sky. The fire is about 3 miles from the trailer, but seems to be over a ridge and not threatening the campground. Threatening me though. So I was reading my book sitting outside under the Yellow pines and thinking of how I only have a little more than a month to enjoy this.
WHEN a helicopter comes in right on top of my campsite and starts sucking water from the small lake near my site (West Lake). All afternoon they've been coming, so I grabbed a few shots for you chickies.

Over the trailer.-exit stage right full of water.

I wonder what they look like when they're excited?

Left- at the post office looking west. Above at the campsite. They may a terrific racket when they're full and lift off. It just hammers the air.

I managed to catch this one through the pine needles.

Here you can see how the water is churned and blasted skyward during the water loading process.

The foreground is right up against my campsite.

Some dufus went out in a float tube to get a closer look and the Rangers had to use bullhorns to get the asshole out of the way.

The pictures speak for themselves. The fire isn't close, so I'm preparing by listening to NPR and watching Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones - and the whatever - the one with Sean Connery. Have a quandry for tomorrow. If I stay high in the Rockies I have to leave the campground because everything is reserved for the weekend. However if I go low it will be over 100F tomorrow again, where it is only about 89 hottest up here - now about 80F. Don't want to go down, can't stay legally up here? What would George do?

Hey! this capon has a date Saturday night!

Night chickies.

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