Fool Creek Fire

Ahorn Fool Creek

Blowup, July 31, 2007

Photographs by Bill Luthin

1:42 pm Quiet day, smoke drifting north

1:47

First sign of blowup (far left over Choteau Mountain)

2:06

3:33

Plume from the Ahorn fire, 3:58 pm

Looking east toward Pine Butte and Ralston Gap: Smoke stream from the Ahorn on the right

converging with smoke from Fool Creek on the left

4:46

4:19

4:27

5:21

5:26

5:31, looking north

5:43

5:47

5:52

6:05

6:06

6:11

7:09 (I)

7:09 (II)

7:09 (III)

7:09 (I-III assembled)

7:11Ear Mountain still clear

(Note contrast between smoke-tinted light in foreground and clear light on slopes under Ear Mountain)

7:12 Choteau Mountain obscured by smoke

7:48

7:51

7:52

7:54

8:02, looking north

The End

(We wish…)