Hiking an Abandoned Trail, Kaweah River Canyon

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Re: Hiking an Abandoned Trail, Kaweah River Canyon

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The fires have merged. The fire on the north side of the canyon is growing faster than the one on the south. The one on the south continues to slowly move east and burn forest along the old trail we took.
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=36.5415 ... 2Cmodis_mp
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Re: Hiking an Abandoned Trail, Kaweah River Canyon

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sekihiker wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:35 am It looks like the KNP Complex fire is moving east across the old trail we took 50 years ago. Back then it looked like a disaster [fire] waiting to happen. I wonder what the forest fuel load looks like now after another 50 years of fire suppression.
Here are some photos of the general area that I just came across. Disaster waiting to happen is (or was) still an appropriate description.
https://the-lookout.org/2021/09/26/gues ... a-forests/
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The fire has now burned about halfway up our route.
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=36.5335 ... a=modis_mp
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The fire has burned to the approximate location where we lost the trail in deadfall. It may make it all the way to Redwood Meadow.
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