Back from the Smith fire

Well we are back from our last fire. We were on a fire called the smith fire...it was about 4 hours away from here. It was up in a wilderness area on the Sequoia National Forest. since it was in the middle of nowhere they helicoptered us all in and on the first morning there was a bunch of photogaphers taking pictures and well I made the front page of the local paper....ok really just my backside made it in the paper....there was a picture of us loading the helicopter and I was the last in line so well you can see my bum and my pigtail braids. We basically finished putting line around the fire and mopping up. It was pretty steep where we were and it was also sandy so our legs got a workout hiking up and down the hills. we also ended up "spiking out" which is staying over night on the fire, not going back to fire camp....sometimes spiking out can be a pain other times it is just fine. this was one of the times that it was just fine...except that the crews that were on night shift decided to walk right by where we were sleeping....oh well we got to work our days off so the more OT the better

it is crazy here in the park because of the holiday weekend. the tourist are crazy and I try to stay of the roads while they are here. Anyway here is a picture of the flight helmets the park helicopter makes us where when we fly on it...otherwise we just were our normal helemetson flights