Jefferson Park
The first major wildfire of the 2017 fire season, the Whitewater Fire, was ignited by a lightning-struck tree and burned 11,500 acres last summer. You can see from the scorched trees just how close it came to this beautiful alpine meadow of lakes below Mount Jefferson. The fire appears to have worked its way up the mountain in a couple places too, until it ran out of fuel at the tree line.
One of my favorite pictures I’ve taken (in the comments below) was from the edge of a lake in this meadow looking at the mountain on a perfectly still morning. There was so much smoke last summer you couldn’t even see the mountain.
Jefferson Park
The first major wildfire of the 2017 fire season, the Whitewater Fire, was ignited by a lightning-struck tree and burned 11,500 acres last summer. You can see from the scorched trees just how close it came to this beautiful alpine meadow of lakes below Mount Jefferson. The fire appears to have worked its way up the mountain in a couple places too, until it ran out of fuel at the tree line.
One of my favorite pictures I’ve taken (in the comments below) was from the edge of a lake in this meadow looking at the mountain on a perfectly still morning. There was so much smoke last summer you couldn’t even see the mountain.