New fire started in Greer. Quickly up to 1200 acres per the watch duty app

12” snow in Walker, Az.

@chumley
https://azgfd-portal-wordpress-pantheon ... July14.pdf

@chumley Can find it on the azgfd website. Trail Cameras, and/or their images, shall not be placed, maintained, or used for the purpose of taking or aiding in the take of wildlife (R12-4-303) The Arizona Game and Fish Commission voted unanimously at a June meeting to ban trail cameras for hunting, ...

It is legal if not being used to aid in hunting purposes. I used to set them up a couple times a year. Have thousands and thousands of incredible pictures and videos of all kinds of wildlife. My young boys absolutely loved sifting thru to find bears, mountain lions etc…

Up to 1307 acres now

@chumley This one makes me nervous. I don’t know how the area faired the last few weeks with rain, but there are lots of draws, and canyons super thick with mixed conifer in that area that if dry are absolute tinder boxes. I’m reading the fire is headed towards the powerlines, which is probably a m...

I was in upper Turkey canyon 3 weeks ago. (Due straight east of gentry spring) It was pretty obvious there hadn’t been any rain yet this summer and there was still intermittent pools. The last few weeks have started to get consistent rain, and more is on the horizon so I imagine the water situation ...

@LindaAnn
Spot on!

@ShatteredArm

I hike a lot in the backcountry usually with 2 little ones in tow and another in the harness. I think it’d be a perfectly reasonable first reaction to double check my handgun was on my hip upon seeing a bear at close range….

Subarus have more clearance than almost any stock vehicle out there, including pickups and SUVs. Simple as that. My wife has a forester. I don’t think that’s accurate. And the listed ground clearance is kind of deceiving. I get after it multiple times a month and choose my mostly stock ram 1500 4x4...

I don’t know if it’s true but I’m reading rumors, the pipeline fire was started by some idiot who didn’t know what to do with his toilet paper so he uhhh lit it on fire…..

He was also was unaware there was a campfire ban

Watched the winds whip it up yesterday driving by on the 17. Scary to see. Such a beautiful part of the Bradshaw’s.

I don’t know if it’s technically quick sand but from I’ve experienced it’s fairly common in intermittent washes and canyons. Seen it in pretty popular places along the agua fria, new River, and popular ohv routes in the Bradshaw’s. Seen it absolutely swallow vehicles more than a few times. It’s alwa...

@AugustWest Throw wind into the mix and bear spray might only go a few feet and some of it comes right back into your own face.

I was hiking today just north of the area in which the snake fire is at and was very surprised in how much of the ground was covered in ashes… I wonder if embers could have flown this far from the backbone fire??

Super glad to see another mountain range obliterated before my family and I got a chance to explore it.....

The fam went and played in the snow this am. Cherry Creek rd near Powell Springs Campground had 6 inches and it was dumping the whole time. The 17 was clear and in good shape plows were out and about. Conditions started to deteriorate on our way home this afternoon though

Up to over 8,000 acres and climbing Towers Mountain in the latest update. Glad I got to hike a little bit of the BradShaw Trail #216 looks like that area is about to get torched

Can see the plume of smoke from north Phoenix. Was in the area recently and it was incredibly dry. Not much more pines left in the southern Bradshaw’s hopefully this doesn’t torch them all.