Veebyes
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Easy to find official provincial sites for daily updates on the fires.
We are N central NE at the moment and it is quite smokey. That can change with a shift in the wind. Smoke or not we continue north entering Canada, pass through Saskatoon and on to Edmonton.
Wild fires are every year.
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StirCrazy
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campgrounds are going to get a lot harder to find in Alberta now. They just shut down a large area of rec sites and back woods camping due to extreme fire risks.
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Veebyes wrote:Easy to find official provincial sites for daily updates on the fires.
We are N central NE at the moment and it is quite smokey. That can change with a shift in the wind. Smoke or not we continue north entering Canada, pass through Saskatoon and on to Edmonton.
Wild fires are every year.
We just went from Grande Prairie to Dawson Creek to Prince George and are currently at the south end of the Cassiar Hwy. (got turned away at Dawson Creek before heading up to Ft St John)
While it was worse at the east end, it's been smoky the whole way.
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Boon Docker
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StirCrazy wrote:campgrounds are going to get a lot harder to find in Alberta now. They just shut down a large area of rec sites and back woods camping due to extreme fire risks.
Have not heard of any closures. No fires or off highway vehicles allowed for now.
Update: Just found a notice about some Provincial Parks being closed, but not boondocking areas.
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StirCrazy
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Boon Docker wrote:StirCrazy wrote:campgrounds are going to get a lot harder to find in Alberta now. They just shut down a large area of rec sites and back woods camping due to extreme fire risks.
Have not heard of any closures. No fires or off highway vehicles allowed for now.
Update: Just found a notice about some Provincial Parks being closed, but not boondocking areas.
some of them there is no hiking, it is only specific areas right now
here is the page
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thomas201
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Did you get good rain last night? Did it help with the fires. Starting North on Sunday.
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trigley
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thomas201 wrote:Did you get good rain last night? Did it help with the fires. Starting North on Sunday.
Many areas did get a good rain which definitely helped. In our area the sky was clear today for the first time in quite a while. Has been extremely smoky some days. June is usually our wettest month. Hope it comes early this year.
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SideHillSoup
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Saw that on the news last night, still need a lot more rain, and hope it keeps coming your way.
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Crowe wrote:Smoke has already made it to the east coast. Did make for a gorgeous sunset! It's high up so we didn't get any odor or any ill effects.
Probably coming from the Nova Scotia fires.
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A couple of years ago when it seemed like the whole province of BC was on fire, we travelled in late July from Vancouver Island to Nova Scotia and back, the smoke followed us almost all the way across. Was much better in the Maritimes where we spent the month of August. The return trip was much better.
The scenery wasn't the best, but the trip was great.
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