I've been pretty lazy with my posts for the month of July (as is typical I've noticed for the summer months as far as this blog is concerned) so I figured I'll recap the entire month in one, long-ass entry...
The beginning of this month began with fire. Our first two fires were in Zion National Park. The Woofman fire and the Horse fire both started out pretty small in the first few days of their existence. I never made it to the Horse fire (we were only needed for two days on my days off) but I managed to get a couple operational periods in on the Woofman fire:
A week went by before we went on another fire to the north of us near
Richfield, UT called the
Amos Canyon Fire. This fire didn't see us do much asides from assist with a couple recons only to leave a few hours after we showed up. We went on our first major fire on 11 July up near
Panguitch Lake. The Horse Valley fire proved our longest roll so far. 6 days were spent running the helibase and working on the line combating the tens of spot fires the main fire had caused.
Since then most of our time has been spent running small single-trees that have been struck by lightening and doing some project work around the place. Now, (of course 3 weeks before I drive home) we're definitely starting to pick up a lot of lightening and a lot of local fires...as crazy as it sounds I'm probably going to miss this place when I leave on the 18th...
I've spent a little time here and there getting away from Cedar City. I had my sea kayak shipped out this way so I could use it on the many lakes and reservoirs around this area...primarily Navajo Lake:
I've managed to get out for a few local climbs but nothing in the park this month. With me being the states for the rest of the winter, I'm really not too worried about trying to get as much climbing as I can in the summer...
Asides from all of that, I've been trying to trade in the Xterra for an older model Ford pick up...like a 1996 F-250 or something like that. Despite being away in the winters for the past two years, I've driven the shit out of that car over the past 5 years and it has held up pretty well but I'm looking for some thing that will hold up for a few hundred thousand miles versus what a gas engine will. I dunno. I have 3 weeks to pull it off...hopefully I'll be driving home in something different than what I have now...
I think that sums up the month of July so far...
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