If you’re not in an approved spot to smoke don’t light it we’re on an unofficial announcement that the BLM fire will be present in the campgrounds making sure we are following the rules or it can cost us our bands so be wise and heed the counsel
Smoke only in designated areas and have a safe Festival
NOTE: 2018
Being “FireWise” is a good thing.
Good job last year :hug
So how’s the forecast this year?
Will there be designated areas again?
Not sure how this went over for everyone but I was very pleased to see how well everyone caught on around our side of the camp…yea theres always a few rebels… no names :burn and some oppositions ar first but everyone seemed to be aware and mindful.
Not to mention - The jam sessions that broke out were most impressive… who knew musicians smoked so much :tapers :pipe
I seriously hope not. One of the stations was set up right next to our normal campsite last year and between the constant smoke and loud talking/yelling into all hours of the night, I was not really happy about the new setup. I understand that they were necessary last year and we were part of the unlucky few who were stationed next to them but I’d really prefer that things go back to ‘normal’ this year.
Luckily snowpack has been great this year and there are currently no fire bans West of the plains.
This is great news!
There’s currently snow very near one of former said “designated areas”:
Wow FOM - that’s crazy. We camp directly to the right of this. Being the local that you are, is this pretty unusual for this time of the year?
Yes, snow pack reached somewhere in the neighborhood of 150% of average and it’s been persistently cold throughout the spring. Here’s another one looking the other way (both taken on Monday):
Not all doom and gloom, here’s one of some Pasque flower’s in Ophir … also taken on Monday:
:kiss. This is much more than a 1000 words FOM ty for posting these.
You can’t even tell there was a huge freakin crater @ baked.
Oh thought some of you might like them :cheers
Yeah, they just put asphalt down yesterday … it’s weird to think it was a giant hole last year!
View from the BIT porch is not what it once was.
Thank you so much for the pictures FOM.
Well, luckily we can get stuff to go from BIT.
Sucks about that beautiful porch view being gone.
You’re welcome KJ, wish I had better ones. I’ll post one more I took at the bottom of Coronet Falls today.
In the grand scheme of things, it’s still beats the view of most “outside seating” at restaurants across the board.
The new owner seems to have a positive attitude and very much into making the operation work. Just need to convince him to make a chocolate chip cookie WITHOUT nuts!
Coronet Falls 5/16/19
You can see in the second photo how the top portion fell over (behind) … so it was probably a good 20’ tall before “the walls caved in”
Thank you FOM this is impressive to see.
It truly is an incredibly beautiful and dynamic environment.
Both man and mother nature have taken up the brush and we are merely patrons of the art.
It’s been about 9 yrs since BIT fire it was 2010 festival if I remember.
It does pang my heart to see the obstructed view even on mornings of grabbing and going you can’t help but look out. Im sad to see Jerry sold it after so many years :sorry more of that dynamic thing I guess.
I am with you about the nuts… though.
Any update on the Transfer Warehouse?
Yeah, it’s strange how I could make a bag of nuts into a meal, but will pick them out of a cookie or muffin. I happened to overhear Jerry talking to the new owner about the cookies and nuts last week, but didn’t get the whole scoop. I suspect he was trying to push to keep the status quo on recipes, which I generally support … although I have always been perplexed why there’s not a “regular” chocolate chip cookie? Butcher and Baker have a great ccc!
Pretty sure there hasn’t been any work done on the Transfer warehouse, but not sure …