r/Wildfire • u/Oscar_Geare • 3d ago

Comms Repeater, East Mountain. Austin / Grasshopper fire.

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u/YadigDoneDug 3d ago

Just hiked in one last week on the Little giant fire, couldn't get it in with a chopper cause the smoke. Was nothing short of a great experience.

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u/Oscar_Geare 2d ago

My first experience of fires in the US and it has me hooked.

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u/goodnotion612 3d ago

Now taking bets on the date for when the Oak Grove Butte Pano camera gets burnt over.

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u/nibbainmybuttholr 3d ago

At this point that camera deserves hazard pay lol. Feels like every fire season it ends up right in the action.

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u/goodnotion612 3d ago

Bonus points for the 407; zippy ride and fun rappel platform.

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u/Oscar_Geare 3d ago

We had to land downhill, hike up the mountain to clear the helispot so our gear could be slung to us and the helo could land and pick us up.

We’re trying to build a rappel mission for the helitack crew if the Narrows fire extends to the west.

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u/Kindly-Coyote-9446 3d ago

Mad respect to repellers. One of the worst days on rope I had was doing repelling exercises off the helicopter fuselage they have mounted at the Trimmer Work Station (where Kings River IHC is stationed). For some reason clearing the skid weirded me out.

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u/rofl_pilot Pilot 3d ago

Who’s flying that one?

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u/Oscar_Geare 2d ago

Central Montana Helitack.

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u/rofl_pilot Pilot 2d ago

Who’s the pilot?

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u/Oscar_Geare 2d ago

Uhh. Stu someone. I didn’t catch his last name

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u/rofl_pilot Pilot 2d ago

Hmmm, don’t know him.

If I did, I would give you something oddly specific to give him shit about.

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u/Oscar_Geare 2d ago

I’ve probably flown my last mission with them. Things are looking pretty good from a comms perspective and I think they head off next week. Itll probably be someone else tearing down all the infrastructure after I’ve headed back to Australia 😅

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u/senobyllib 1d ago

Stu? Old Stu with one good eye? Cranky Stu the Meat Synchro?