Seriously, WTF is with this Weather?

[AirheadD8]

6 hours ago, mute1080 said:

Sad. I've rode by it a bunch of times but never stopped to check it out. 

Was up that way yesterday and the smoke was thick and impossible to miss. Up to 600 acres as of last night and yesterday's wind wasn't helping it slow down.

My father-in-law used to live across the river from that spot. I would stand on his front porch many days and look at all the potential ski lines. When the D&L trail went in I was pretty excited of the possibility of skinning up to that point. I hiked (crawled) it a couple times. There’s a 10’ high rock spine with pine trees on both sides that went up in flames last night.
 

In February if 2014 there was finally enough snow. My niece wanted to go but the day before she cracked a vertebrae at Blue and canceled.A couple hours later she called me back and asked if I had a backpack, so I carried her stuff, She’s one bad ass girl! 

We started at Weissport at 10 am and skinned up 2.5 miles and after a rest at the observation platform attempted to skin up but kick turns were difficult so we figured out if we put our back against a tree it was possible. 
The snow was perfect but we waisted a fair amount of vertical before figuring out how to ski it. 
 

I didn’t know at the time that one of my friends had 20 acres on the north side so now it’s a half hour skin up. I’ve hiked it a couple times with my son One really cool place!
 

I’m thinking arson off the D&L after looking at the two places early on . 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

That was a good read.  The Hobacks at Jackson hole was created due to a fire.  I actually just paid fire insurance for work..

[RidgeRacer]

Awesome views from there. All around Lehigh gorge actually has some of the best overlooks in the area.

[AirheadD8]

7 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said:

Awesome views from there. All around Lehigh gorge actually has some of the best overlooks in the area.

If you like to camp there’s a nice spot behind the cliff in the video. 
 

Mount Pisgah behind North st in Jim Thorpe is our go to spot for overlooks. 

[C1erArt]

Satellite hot spot from Gaia GPS

[EdBacon]

The rhododendron were so thick in there. It must have taken it 100 years to fill in like that after the logging stopped. 

Oh and apparently there's a huge wildfire in South Jersey. 3200 acres burned. 3000 people evacuated so far and the Garden State Parkway is shutdown. Only 5% contained and I just heard about that. Wild. 

Edited 23 hours ago by EdBacon

[C1erArt]

Satellite hot spot and smoke forecast