Fire Season is Here

Bits and pieces from a drying land

It was an eerie and incongruent sight: Billows of gray smoke rising into the blue, seemingly from within the red rock of Moab, as though a pyroclastic Slickrock monster was emerging from a long slumber or the La Sal Laccolith were rediscovering its volcaniclastic roots.

The monster was the Pack Creek Fire, apparently sparked by a campfire, which tore th…