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It's really hard to describe what it was like spending several days and nights here, how unsettling the sound of silence is. Voices and sounds carried much further with the lack of leaves to break up the noise. Very few birds and insects buzzing around. Normally at night you can usually hear the breeze rustling trees and shaking leaves, there was none of that. It's common to wake up to the sounds of birds, but not here. What we did hear, as the sun blanketed the valley/canyon, was the low hum of flies as they vibrated to warm up.
The soot got every where, despite wearing long sleeves and pants the whole time, when I showered, the amount of soot was shocking and the clothes I wore still has soot marks on them from brushing up against burned branches.
Campaign Trail - about 3 months following the Woodbury fire. My friends and I who regularly backpack into the Sups decided to do something different and go into a section where the fires burned. This wilderness is too hard to get fire crews into, so most of this was just left to burn.
You can see while almost all of the old growth has died and been burned, there is new life growing from the ground at the base of nearly every dead tree.
This is part of the fireline trail, meant to give the easiest possible access for fire fighters to get back here. It's about 3 miles from a place called Reavis Ranch, old Reavis is buried up here, but his apple orchard was saved from the fire.