The Adventure Guys
We admit it. We've got great jobs. How many people get told by their bosses to go out and play? We write about those experiences each Thursday in The News Tribune’s Adventure section. But there's always more to the story. Here, Craig Hill and Jeffrey P. Mayor will share the inside stories on their adventures - including their misadventures - plus post news and answer your questions.

CRAIG HILL

Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about  adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com

JEFFREY P. MAYOR

Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com

Calendar
August 2009
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
 << < Current> >>
            1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31          
Archives
XML Feeds
What is RSS?
Misc
Who's Online?
  • Dukeshire Email
  • mikebednarczyk Email
  • artman77 Email
  • Guest Users: 361
The inside story on outside recreation for South Puget Sound and beyond
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Posted by Jeff Mayor @ 06:33:44 pm

This was released a couple of hours ago by Olympic National Park:

Despite an onshore flow of cooler marine air in the lowlands of the Olympic Peninsula, very dry conditions continue in the upper elevations of Olympic National Park. Eight firefighters are now assigned to the Ten Mile Fire which straddles the Duckabush Trail on the southeast slopes of the Olympic Mountains.

Upslope winds accelerated spread of the Ten Mile fire; by the end of the day on Saturday, the fire was approximately 150 acres in size.

To protect visitor safety, Olympic National Park officials closed the Duckabush Trail from the La Crosse Pass trail junction to the park boundary. This adds to trail closures already in effect in the Dosewallips drainage where the Constance Fire continues to expand to the west.

Click "Trail Conditions" here for current information on all trail closures or call the park’s Wilderness Information Center at (360) 565-3100.

In addition to suppression activities on the Ten Mile Fire, on Sunday, 10 firefighters and two helicopters worked on the east and south sides of the Constance Fire, and one helicopter focused on mapping perimeters of the Heatwave Complex of fires.

Updated acreage information on all of the fires will be available here on Monday.

An interagency Type II fire team is enroute to the park and will assume
management oversight for the Heatwave Fire Complex on Tuesday,augmenting the park firefighting team, and enabling other park staff to return to their normal duties.

Superintendent Karen Gustin noted that “conditions are changing daily, and we appreciate the public’s understanding during this time. Do not hesitate to access the Web for current information.”