Smoke in Dease Lake?

[butcher]

Anyone been up and back? With the Telegraph Creek fire raging and wind from the southwest I’m wondering if the mountains are terribly smoky? Particularly the Cassiar area. I’m headed up next week and will put it off if I need to.

[Astepanuk]

Wondering the same thing hate to put all this planning into our hunt and be cancelled from something like this. you can check out www.firesmoke.ca (http://www.firesmoke.ca) shows you the active smoke in Canada.

[Wild one]

Hearing it’s really smoky out that way from buddy working up there

[butcher]

Talked to Bill at BC Yukon. He’s not even flying right now. Says it’s clearing and should be going by the weekend.

[Avalanche123]

There are several fires around Dease Lake. The closest one to Cassiar is the Elbow Lake fire just south of Dease Crossing. Yes the area is very smoky as the two biggest fires combined are at 29,000 ha just west of Dease Lake. If you can delay your trip, it might be a good idea. There still remains a chance of evacuation of Dease Lake but the WildFlire folks appear somewhat optimistic that it won't be necessary. The amount of air power (now flying out of Iskut) is impressive as these are now the biggest fires burning in BC. It definitely won't be the same hunting around this area this fall.

[Cat catcher]

Cant see the actual dease lake from the highway it’s so Smokey.

[butcher]

Cant see the actual dease lake from the highway it’s so Smokey.

You there now?

talked to the outfitter at kawdy he said it’s off and on. Today being a bad one.

[Avalanche123]

You there now?

talked to the outfitter at kawdy he said it’s off and on. Today being a bad one.

Look at the DRIVEBC webcam. The outfitter is right, it is good and bad. IMO the longer you can delay your trip, the better. Cassiar may not be as bad as it is further north. Good luck!

[BCHunterTV]

Talked to Bill at BC Yukon. He’s not even flying right now. Says it’s clearing and should be going by the weekend.


im booked with Bill for mid Sept....for Caribou. The fires are close, and i guess the concern of the animals even be on the plateau in a months time with all the smoke

[S.W.A.T.]

With everything going on there it might be best just to avoid the area.

[decker9]

Just came down yesterday from dease. dease was ok, but anything south was smokey. Up by blue river, some days could hardly see the hills. The wind changes every few hours tho so it came and went. The gal at the dease hotel mentioned the fire was moving 1km per hour, not sure how close it would be by now. Was pouring rain in bell 2 tho, hoping they got that rain further north too.

[BromBones]

Calling for thunderstorm today around Dease followed by 3 or 4 more days of heat, so wont be much improvement. Possibly rain later next week.

Tough call, smoke is very thick and the amount of air traffic doesn't help out the odds of a successful hunt. Cassiar area isn't affected as much but sometimes the smoke layers can settle into a valley and hang there, depending on the weather patterns.

[Cub Driver]

You can check the aviation weather cam. http://www.metcam.navcanada.ca/lb/cameraSite.jsp?lang=e&id=156
Drive BC also has highway cams.

[butcher]

Checked the highway cams. Not too worried about air traffic near Dease hurting the hunting. We will be taking a private aircraft and coming in from the southeast and staying away from the big fires. We are going to get to our lake regardless but if we can’t do any glassing there’s not much point. Played that game before.

[britman101]

Hope things improve for you over the next week or so, but today is one of the worst days in terms of smoke and ash for Prince George. Ash is filtering down and at 6:30 pm, instead of being bright and sunny it was so dark it felt like it was 9:30 p.m.. The fear is that if the situation worsens instead of evacuation alerts, communities may be evacuated just like what happened in the summer of 2017.

[Blockcaver]

I pulled out of there yesterday due to smoke....pretty hard to breath or see at times depending on winds.

[butcher]

Perfect. Thanks for that. You just saved me a bunch of time and money.

[Astepanuk]

I sure hope you guys get some rain in BC think I’ll cry if our trip falls through mid September.

[butcher]

It won’t fall through. Summer is short up there. Keep hitting your stair master. Fires will go out.

[Astepanuk]

It won’t fall through. Summer is short up there. Keep hitting your stair master. Fires will go out.

Thanks we’re definitely keeping our hopes up on vacation in NewYork right now 12-15km walking a day not much for elevation but it’s still miles.