Smoke

Forest fires in central Washington State are filling our skies with smoke.  Friday the smoke moved into the Valleys.  The air quality declined all day and is now rated as unhealthy.  Friday I went hiking down in the Mission Mountains.  Up high in the mountains the smoke level didn't change all day: increase or decrease.  But once we came down out of the mountains we could tell the smoke had definitely gotten worse in the Valleys.


Here is how one usually sees the mountains  (taken earlier this week).

Here is how the view looked like this afternoon.

Apparently there are lots of fires in Oregon and Idaho too.  So, even if the wind shifts direction we will get smoke from a fire somewhere.