AM: Walked out of the house for my moring run to see this
Yep, that's Taylor Canyon and from what I could see it looked like the fire was right on the Malan's Peak trail....which is where I was headed. Lot's of timber and lots of fuel in there so I imagined the worst....Felt like I was loosing a good friend.
A quick drive up the street and I could see it was 1/2 mile east of the Malan's trail and it looked like it was a single tree burning.
Drove up 27th street and there were several forrest service trucks, they were on it. I ran up to Taylor canyon and bumped in to a firefighter walking down and ribbon marking the trail for the other crews to follow. Really good guy, said they had been on the North Ogden fire until 3:00 AM and got called out to this one. I walked up with him for a bit, even offering to carry some of the gear, those guys are tough, it was hot and they are decked out head to toe and carry alot of gear. He gave me the go ahead to continue up the trail, which I did until I ran into a group of 5 firefighters who asked me to turn around. I thanked them for their hard work, turned around, ran 100 yards down the trail, crossed the creek and hiked around above them, I know....but there really wasn't any close danger.
Ran up Malan's took some good pictures of the fire and was relived to see it was contained in low brush and rock.....Very, very lucky. Any other spot on that whole hillside and the thing woulda burned huge all the way to Snowbasin .
PM: Got out for a nice hike with the boys to this little piece of tropical paradise up Taylor Canyon. Pure spring water, cold and clean.
Ran into the same firefighter I walked up with this morning. Poor guys had been sitting on the hillside all day in 100+ degree heat keeping any eye on the fire....Kind of a cool job, but gotta be pure misery on days like today.
Home for dinner then a nice 45 minute easy cruise just after sunset.
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