Fire

Fire is a way of life during the summer in the Rocky Mountain west. I picked up a copy of Norman McLean's excellent book "Young Men and Fire" to learn a bit about the smoke jumping -forest firefighting culture.

Two fires are burning near Glacier -- close enough that we get some smoke and haze if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction, but not so close that we're in any danger of evacuation.

On our way out of the park and back to Whitefish on Route 2, we passed evidence of an earlier fire. Shortly afterward, we drove by a firefighter base camp near the Devil Creek campsight in the Flathead National Forest.