I loaned my dad my copy of Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean's excellent account of the 1949 Mann Gulch forest fire that claimed the lives of several smokejumpers. In return, he forwarded me the photograph below which, according to the email, was taken by a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska named John McColgan, in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana, in the summer of 2000. Terrifying and beautiful. And if you haven't read Young Men and Fire, you should.
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