By the time the wedding week came to a close there were more than 100 fires burning in Humboldt County. Several fires scorched the steep ridges that overhang Highway 299, which runs alongside the Trinity River — the river we were to white water raft on Friday.
Sarah and I got a call Thursday morning telling us that our rafting trip had been moved down stream due to road closures, but when we arrived the company said the roads had opened and the better rapids of the Upper Trinity proved hard to resist. Despite the heavy smoke that dominated our drive to that point, we drove deeper into the wildfires.
The trouble began after the rafting. See Mark's video below.
Jason
PS: The rafting was amazing, great fun: good rapids, excellent guides.
Eagle Fire along Trinity River from Mark Ranallo on Vimeo.
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As Amy and I were looking over the pictures last night we wondered if you ended up getting to go rafting. I'm glad that the delay happened afterward.
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