For anyone planning canoe or kayak trips to the interior of Alaska. Currently there are 55 wildfires in Alaska due to lack of rain. The Steese highway (Birch creek and the Koyukuk rivers) and the Taylor highway to Chicken (forty mile river)have been closed off and on due to the fires. I would suggest have a plan B ready incase you cannot get access to the river you orginally planned to run. Also there is a burn ban on for most of the state which includes camp fires. We faked a fire using alumimum foil as "flames" at church camp this past week. Problem is we couldn't find any alumimun marshmellows to roast. Bob *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 30 2004 - 14:26:15 PDT
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