The McKinney Fire is backing into my old service center in Yreka, where I was dispatching at Copco 2 Switching center. Now the Potter fire hit above where I first came to work in Oregon from Kings River to Lemolo PH and to the east at Windigo up against wilderness to Mt Thielson (The lightning Rod of the Cascades).
You seriously need a weather eye living with limited access.
Potter Fire https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8291/
Windigo fire https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8292/
These fires with any wind are going to run thru mostly clear cuts with blocks of second and 3rd growth with some mature stands across very broken volcanic landscape. The land of lodge poles that will run for miles and with beetle kill areas. I’m going to treasure my pictures from cruising around on my dirt bike.
In the spirit of nostalgia, you can have a quiet good time out there. New operators as a KOA and it IS the worlds only dinosaur shaped reservoir, that they know of. PS. There are huge German Brown, Rainbow, Hybrids & Mackinaw for the fisher folk from there to the ocean that the salmon come up to, Soda Springs R.
Remember all the big game & wildlife loves it when it grows back with border areas and grasslands shrub for awhile. My fiance was the assistant biologist for USFS at Toketee. Courting her I’d take her bundles of Tansy Ragwort (invasive species) for their dumpster from along the canal as i was sowing raspberries and wildlife sightings, like when the Turkeys made it up from Glide or an elk drown.
https://koa.com/campgrounds/lemolo-lake/