I explained in the last post that I try to limit the number of photos in each post. That is partly because I think it helps the post to load better and I also want to keep whatever audience I may have. That’s you! However, I guess I’m sort of cheating because now I’m writing two posts for each day if there are just too many photos that I want to remember.

We headed north from Bryce Canyon National Park with the plan to get to Hwy. 50 and drive east as far as was practical.

As we turned north we saw plumes of smoke on the horizon.

About an hour later those plumes were much closer. This was the Monroe Canyon fire. It started burning July 13 and had now (August 16) burned almost 74,000 acres.

We passed the a fire camp.

This view shows two helicopters making water drops.

They are filling the buckets from a small reservoir on the other side of the highway.

There is a helicopter in the middle of this photo.

ireBy the time we were in eastern Utah we had left the smoke behind. We continued on to Montrose where we got a motel room for the night.