The fire grew yesterday, with 40mph winds. the smoke and ash is horrible. the fire is not in the park, but it's causing a bit of trouble. also, the fires on the west side are helping to add to the smoke problem. mostly the smoke settles in in the morning and evening. here's an afternoon shot of east glacier park and the fire. The first shot was at about 5 or so, the second was just a couple hours later and taken looking west instead of south east. the fire is NOT in the park, but the smoke rolling in from the west side combined with the clouds made it interesting. . .




you can see here the webcams for the park. http://www.nps.gov/archive/glac/webcams/tmcam.htm

the smoke is not too bad at times on the east side. if we have a south west wind, things are fine even though the fire is only a few miles away. if we get a south east or southerly wind, it rains ash on the east glacier park and the east side, like it did last night. . . This shot was taken looking north west from east glacier up the lawn of the lodge. WB was set to daylight so that the colors would be accurate. this was at about 7:30 pm. . .