Staging Ground Tuolumne
Yosemite Rim Fire: 10th in a series -- They let me wander here greeting friendly crews everywhere and about 100 trucks. The crews were resting, for they would be heading out soon. Other truck crews were already heading out of town – to the South, the North and East. It was just beyond this crew here that a local resident – hair long (an oddity among fire fighters – camera and legal pad befriended me. The local historian. The smoke hung heavy, everyone eying the ridge at the eastern end of town. My new friend told me that that ridge is where Tuolumne would make its last stand, survive or fall, on the backs of these young men and women (mostly men) around us.
Staging Ground Tuolumne
Yosemite Rim Fire: 10th in a series -- They let me wander here greeting friendly crews everywhere and about 100 trucks. The crews were resting, for they would be heading out soon. Other truck crews were already heading out of town – to the South, the North and East. It was just beyond this crew here that a local resident – hair long (an oddity among fire fighters – camera and legal pad befriended me. The local historian. The smoke hung heavy, everyone eying the ridge at the eastern end of town. My new friend told me that that ridge is where Tuolumne would make its last stand, survive or fall, on the backs of these young men and women (mostly men) around us.