Colorado Wildfires and my hunt next week

[workethic]

I am supposed to be bear hunting in GMU 42 next week starting Wednesday morning and was wondering if anyone had any insight as to the conditions out there. Am I going to be sucking smoke for the 8 days I am there and how is the haze from the smoke. Ill be up around 8-9k. I am wondering if I should do some quick planning in a different GMU that my tag supports, any thoughts on that idea? Thanks in advance!

 

[Mighty Mouse]

Folks on the ground will likely have better info, but below are two links to get a general idea of smoke in the area. Depending on the wind direction, I'd imagine unit 42 will be seeing smoke from either the Pine Gulch or Grizzly Creek fire.
fires.airfire.org/outlooks/WesternColorado
fire.airnow.gov

 

[workethic]

Folks on the ground will likely have better info, but below are two links to get a general idea of smoke in the area. Depending on the wind direction, I'd imagine unit 42 will be seeing smoke from either the Pine Gulch or Grizzly Creek fire.
fires.airfire.org/outlooks/WesternColorado
fire.airnow.gov

Thanks for that! Exactly what I am looking for.

 

[Smokeslider]

Do some internet searching for webcams in the area you are planning to hunt in and that should at least give you an idea of real-time visibility. We use them quite a bit in aviation to check visibility in areas we are trying to get into. There's some other tools available as well that aviation uses. Skyvector.com is a good site that will show airport weather stations and their visibility.

 

[workethic]

Do some internet searching for webcams in the area you are planning to hunt in and that should at least give you an idea of real-time visibility. We use them quite a bit in aviation to check visibility in areas we are trying to get into. There's some other tools available as well that aviation uses. Skyvector.com is a good site that will show airport weather stations and their visibility.

That worked awesome thank you!